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Subject(s)

• Labor—India—21st century [Browse]
• India—Economic conditions—1991- [Browse]
• Cities and towns—India [Browse]

Related name

• Basu, Pratyusha [Browse]
• Krishnan, Omkumar [Browse]
• R. V., Bhavani [Browse]

Series

Urban futures [More in this series]

Biographical/​Historical note

Nidhi Tandon℗ is℗ Director of East Brunswick FIRST Inc., a non-profit based in New Jersey, USA. Trained as an interdisciplinary researcher at IIT, Bombay, she also holds professional certifications from MIT in Data Science, Smart Cities, and Equitable Education, along with a certification in project management from Cornell University.℗ Her expertise is in the fields of education, public policy, and conceptualising solutions for℗ digital and STEM education and workforce skills.℗ Pratyusha Basu is Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Director of Asian Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. She has an MPhil from IIT-Bombay, a PhD from the University of Iowa, Iowa City (USA). Her research broadly focuses on economic development and social identities in the Global South. She conducts ethnographic fieldwork on rural-urban intersections and has published a book on gender and cooperative dairying in India.℗ Omkumar Krishnan℗ is Professor in Marketing Management at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK), India. A PhD and MPhil from IIT, Bombay, his research focuses on destination branding and consumer well-being. Among courses that he teaches are Consumer Behaviour, Services Marketing and Sociology for Management. He has earlier worked with Drishti Services and Lowe Lintas in Mumbai, and also undertakes consultancies and training assignments. He has edited two books on branding and has travelled in 55 cities across 30 countries.℗ Bhavani R.V. is Consultant with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. in Bangladesh. She has an MPhil from IIT, Bombay and a PhD from University of Madras. An economist by training, she started her career as an officer in State Bank of India. She then worked on development issues with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in India. The core domain areas of her work are livelihood, food and nutrition security. She has published several papers and co-edited a volume on the agrarian crisis in India.

Summary note

This book offers an overview of India's emerging digital economy and the challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces. It examines contemporary economic and social transformations in India by focusing on how new technologies and policies are shaping urban work practices and patterns. The book emphasizes on inclusive and equitable practices that consider the needs of the formal and informal sector workforce as essential to India's urban development. Drawing on insights from the intersections of society, economy, and environment along with theoretical frameworks from across disciplines, it examines key issues related to work trends in Indian urban economy and its digital landscape, including Industry 4.0 and technology-labour nexus, smart cities and innovation, urbanism and consumerism, workplace transitions such as remote working and service industry, digital divide, skill development initiatives, and the impact of socio-economic inequalities and disruptions. The authors provide perspectives on the digital future of urban work in India and other emerging economies in the post-Covid-19 phase, and underscore the importance of enacting balanced policies, remodeling institutions, and equipping the labor force for adapting to new demands towards determining future employability and investments. This book will interest students, teachers and researchers of urban studies, urban sociology, sociology of work, labour studies, human and urban geography, economic geography, urban economics, development studies, urban development and planning, public policy, regional planning, politics of urban development, social and cultural change, urban sustainability, environmental studies, management studies, South Asian Studies, and Global South studies. It will also be useful to policymakers, non-governmental organisations, activists, and those interested in India and the global economy.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Future Workplaces : A Global Perspective
• Workplace Transitions in India : An Overview
• Services Industry : Consumerism and Urbanism
• Technology-Labour Nexus and Industry 4.0
• Workers in the Urban Informal Sector
• Digital Divide : From Smartphones to Broadband
• Smart Cities : Innovations and Inequalities.

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ISBN

• 9781032027548 (hardcover)
• 1032027541 (hardcover)

OCLC

1273075946

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