Invisible Labour
Overview The Indian economy runs, in significant part, on work that does not appear in GDP accounts, is excluded from labour force surveys, and is invisible to welfare administration. Home-based workers — embroiderers, bidi rollers, garment assemblers, papad makers — produce for global supply chains from their kitchen floors. Domestic workers — cooks, cleaners, caregivers — reproduce the conditions for every other kind of work. Together, they constitute an estimated 5–7 crore workers who are largely absent from formal count. ...