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Jobs Crisis in India
An influence portrait of Raghavan Jagannathan’s book on India’s employment challenge, technological displacement, gig and contract work, skills, and the difference between job counts and viable livelihoods.
The work pushes the Internet of Value to examine transitions between learning, capability, work, income, and security rather than assuming that technological growth automatically creates dignified employment.
Influence portrait
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Provenance
sourced factThe Jobs Crisis in India is a 2018 book by journalist Raghavan Jagannathan, published by Pan Macmillan India.
Core ideas
sourced factThe book examines technological disruption, automation, gig and contract work, skills mismatch, agricultural labor transitions, and uncertainty about the scale and quality of future jobs.
Moral themes
editorial interpretationIts moral pressure lies in treating employment as a question of livelihood, agency, transition, and social stability rather than a headline number alone.
Defining influence
editorial interpretationFor Moses, the work made changing forms of work and reskilling part of the design problem behind value recognition and economic participation.
Tensions and critique
editorial interpretationForecasts about automation and skill demand are uncertain; reskilling cannot substitute for labor demand, worker protection, social security, and attention to job quality.
Relationship to the Internet of Value
editorial interpretationThe book is labor-market context, not protocol authority. It sharpens IoV questions about recognizing capabilities, supporting transitions, and distinguishing activity from dignified livelihood.
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