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Global crises, welfare provision and coping strategies of labour in Tiruppur [1]

Even as state governments invest in social welfare measures, they are forced into constant competition with one another to attract private investments, offering a good “investment climate” that includes access to a low cost workforce and a physical infrastructure geared towards capital accumulation. The need to provision welfare within an accumulation regime premised on global competition, fiscal austerity and marketisation, and a simultaneous need to reduce labour costs and to ensure social security, to exclude and include labour appears paradoxical.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2011
M Vijayabaskar [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
46
22
38-45
Tags:
Textile Industry [4], Tiruppur [5], Tamil Nadu [6], Workers [7], Cotton [8], Unemployment [9], Migration [10], Anti-Poverty Programmes [11], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [12], Subsidies [13], Poverty [14], Exports [15], Trade [16]
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