BUSINESS
Xi Jinping’s China abdicates its responsibility towards worker-centric reforms
A laissez-faire approach to labour has been salient in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’. It has more or less continued to remain so in the political report at the 20th Congress
BUSINESS
CPC Party Congress | Threat of a young and disillusioned China
Xi Jinping’s call to the youth to remain firmly wedded to the party’s designs and plans needs to be seen in the backdrop of growing unhappiness and unemployment among youth in China
BUSINESS
In China and India, street vendors face similar urban challenges
Visible in both China and India is a dominant vision of urbanity that perpetuates sanitised order and pristineness, devoid of any informal or irregular spatial practices. Street vendors, like other low-wage migrant workers, continue to be ‘strangers in the city’ in both countries
