Amit Basole
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Basole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Basole |
| SIGNATURE | BASOLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Azim Premji University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Formal–Informal Productivity Gap among Small Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from India
Small manufacturing firms are engines of growth and job creation. While most research on small firms focuses on formal sector units, in developing coun- tries informal sector units outnumber the formal. For, example, in India, man- ufacturing units employing 5 to 49 workers constitute only 5% of all informal units, but in absolute numbers are nine times more numerous than formal units in the same size class. Such firms have the potential to contr…
Educational infrastructure and growth of small towns: Evidence from India
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of Covid-19 on livelihoods in India
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on “Capital,” Volume 1, by Christian Fuchs
The book Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on “Capital,” Volume 1, by Christian Fuchs, follows the structure of Karl Marx’s first volume, bringing in theoretical concepts and empirical examples from the world of media and communications studies for each chapter. The author ably demonstrates the relevance of Marxian analysis to the Internet economy and the information age. The book will work great a…
India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis, edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, and Richard Peet
The book under review is a collection of thirteen articles that analyze the institutional and political economic dimensions of India's neoliberal reforms undertaken in 1991. Several articles focus on the theme of urbanization and the consequences of neoliberalism for the urban poor. Overall, the volume is an excellent addition to the critical literature on neoliberalism in India and will be of service to both researchers and teachers of developme…
Informality and Flexible Specialization: Apprenticeships and Knowledge Spillovers in an Indian Silk Weaving Cluster
This article draws on quantitative and qualitative data from the Banaras (Varanasi) silk weaving cluster in North India to show how informal institutions based on family and community interact with the relations of production to enable flexible specialization while reproducing or accentuating inequality. The family-based apprenticeship system produces a supply of highly skilled workers but contributes to labour surplus by lowering the costs of en…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Reinterpreting Gandhi for the Information Age
Fuelling Calorie Intake Decline: Household-Level Evidence from Rural India
Class-Biased Technical Change and Socialism: Some Reflections on Benedito Moraes-Neto's “On the Labor Process and Productive Efficiency: Discussing the Socialist Project”
Are capitalism's latest technological advances necessary/appropriate for a socialist society? Or can relatively technologically “backward” capitalist societies follow their own distinct path to socialism? Here I take Benedito Moraes-Neto's “On the Labor Process and Productive Efficiency: Discussing the Socialist Project” as a starting point for my own reflections on these questions, attempting to broaden the terms of the debate, elaborating on th…
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of Covid-19 on livelihoods in India
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Fuelling Calorie Intake Decline: Household-Level Evidence from Rural India
Informality and Flexible Specialization: Apprenticeships and Knowledge Spillovers in an Indian Silk Weaving Cluster
This article draws on quantitative and qualitative data from the Banaras (Varanasi) silk weaving cluster in North India to show how informal institutions based on family and community interact with the relations of production to enable flexible specialization while reproducing or accentuating inequality. The family-based apprenticeship system produces a supply of highly skilled workers but contributes to labour surplus by lowering the costs of en…
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Educational infrastructure and growth of small towns: Evidence from India
Class-Biased Technical Change and Socialism: Some Reflections on Benedito Moraes-Neto's “On the Labor Process and Productive Efficiency: Discussing the Socialist Project”
Are capitalism's latest technological advances necessary/appropriate for a socialist society? Or can relatively technologically “backward” capitalist societies follow their own distinct path to socialism? Here I take Benedito Moraes-Neto's “On the Labor Process and Productive Efficiency: Discussing the Socialist Project” as a starting point for my own reflections on these questions, attempting to broaden the terms of the debate, elaborating on th…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Reinterpreting Gandhi for the Information Age
Fuelling Calorie Intake Decline: Household-Level Evidence from Rural India
India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis, edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, and Richard Peet
The book under review is a collection of thirteen articles that analyze the institutional and political economic dimensions of India's neoliberal reforms undertaken in 1991. Several articles focus on the theme of urbanization and the consequences of neoliberalism for the urban poor. Overall, the volume is an excellent addition to the critical literature on neoliberalism in India and will be of service to both researchers and teachers of developme…
Informality and Flexible Specialization: Apprenticeships and Knowledge Spillovers in an Indian Silk Weaving Cluster
This article draws on quantitative and qualitative data from the Banaras (Varanasi) silk weaving cluster in North India to show how informal institutions based on family and community interact with the relations of production to enable flexible specialization while reproducing or accentuating inequality. The family-based apprenticeship system produces a supply of highly skilled workers but contributes to labour surplus by lowering the costs of en…
Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on “Capital,” Volume 1, by Christian Fuchs
The book Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on “Capital,” Volume 1, by Christian Fuchs, follows the structure of Karl Marx’s first volume, bringing in theoretical concepts and empirical examples from the world of media and communications studies for each chapter. The author ably demonstrates the relevance of Marxian analysis to the Internet economy and the information age. The book will work great a…
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: Impact of Covid-19 on livelihoods in India
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Educational infrastructure and growth of small towns: Evidence from India
The Formal–Informal Productivity Gap among Small Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from India
Small manufacturing firms are engines of growth and job creation. While most research on small firms focuses on formal sector units, in developing coun- tries informal sector units outnumber the formal. For, example, in India, man- ufacturing units employing 5 to 49 workers constitute only 5% of all informal units, but in absolute numbers are nine times more numerous than formal units in the same size class. Such firms have the potential to contr…
Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)