Vichaar- In Pursuit of a City Dream, One Contract at a time

In this edition of Vichaar, we decided to investigate this claim not simply in the backdrop of gig work but in the light of increasing casualisation of labor. For this purpose, we reached out to the research consultant at Samvada, Shradhha NV Sharma. We began the conversation on understanding why the young Indian population is so drawn to choose contractual work and even willing to leave the agrarian economy behind. We furthered our conversation on what casualisation implies and its impact on the real versus imagined agency. How casualisation impacts marginalized groups and if there’s a way to mitigate the impact?