This book asks if unemployment often translates to cynicism and desire for strong-armed leadership

The dangerous work environment of Indian workers is symptomatic of the global decline of organised labour and the corresponding rise of what’s now widely called the “precariat”. India’s new slavery is an egregious version of this trend. A global class of labour that lives perpetually in economic uncertainty and moves in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives, the precariat are characterised by volatile earnings, chronic debt, and a lack of non-wage and rights-based state benefits. In the global hierarchy of labour, they come below the traditional working class, for whom welfare states were built and…