![]() We need a more sophisticated model-one that goes beyond pure financial interests-to identify ways to increase the income of India’s many craftsmen and craftswomen.įor more on the sector, know that the Centre has scrapped the Handloom Board what leading handicraft & handloom advocate Laila Tyabji sees as a silver lining in these times how Delhi-based Craft Village is using ‘cement fabric’ to make PPE suits and how street performers are going online to prepare for a post-COVID world. The paper suggests that merely increasing tourism to artisanal towns will not increase the craftspersons’ income, as is often believed. Foreigners who ooh and aah for long enough are much more likely to get a discount than to get fleeced. Recoding Power: Tactics for Mobilizing Tech Workers. In fact, because the artisans feel a deep connection to their product, they’d prefer to sell it to you- even at the risk of earning less- if you look like someone who would value it and give it pride of place in your home.Įven people like you and me, who otherwise have a higher ability to pay, will end up paying a lower price-if we come across as appreciative and discerning. Aruna Ranganathan Task Content and Job Losses in the Great Lockdown Filippos Petroulakis Book Reviews The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City. But that doesn’t mean they ask for more if you look rich. Artisans do assess you, determine whether you’re a “discerning” buyer or not, and quote you a price. Have you ever wondered whether craft sellers at Dilli Haat give you a once-over and accordingly offer a price? Stanford professor Aruna Ranganathan’s research shows that this is almost exactly right. ‘Make in India’ programme is unlikely to succeed.” They argue that deals between Indian businesses and politicians are often the unproductive kind and "as long as the business environment in India is characterised by these types of deals. Read this by Sabyasachi Kar and others for the application of similar ideas to the Indian context. You can watch him speak here on why governance reform (or reducing corruption) is not a pre-requisite for growth. Mushtaq Khan ’s lectures I attended as a student at SOAS. This is very interesting work and builds on Prof. It isn’t as if developed countries don’t have corruption-they do, but it is more sophisticated, and legal. Local political economy does not allow the bureaucrat/ politician to ensure their stake in the success of a business and blocking progress is more lucrative. In India, on the other hand, corruption is mainly petty or speed money, which impedes growth. Politicians can share in this growth and everyone benefits. you pay a bribe to get access to productive resources and not to get your work done (faster)-it stimulates investment. ![]() But because China’s corruption is one of “access” and not one of “speed”-i.e. She says that when measured on a perception index, both China and India have the same absolute levels of corruption. This paper contributes to scholarship on the temporal restructuring of work, performance of women in teams, and gender inequality, while also adding to the current policy conversation on the future of work.My first recommendation for the fortnight is this fascinating podcast with University of Michigan professor Yuen Yuen Ang about how it is not the level of corruption, but the nature of corruption that determines its impact on a country’s growth. A panel of experts later evaluated the musical output of the lead singers under both conditions. We then conducted a field experiment where lead singers, both men and women, recorded a song both synchronously and asynchronously with a standard set of instrumentalists. We first collected ethnographic and interview data with folk musicians to develop our theory. We explore this question in the context of folk music ensembles in eastern India. We argue that men will not experience the same boost in performance, and in this way, the rise of asynchronous teamwork has the potential to reduce gender disparities in performance. Because women in teams have traditionally been held back from performing to their full potential, it is imperative to ask: how does this shift to asynchronous teamwork affect the performance of men and women differently? In this paper, we argue that women will perform better when teamwork is asynchronous rather than synchronous, because working on their own time alone will afford them greater freedom for creative expression. In particular, teamwork is now often performed asynchronously, with members of teams working at different times by themselves rather than at the same time together. Title: On My Own Time: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in PerformanceĪbstract: Temporal restructuring of work features prominently in the future of work. Please join us for a colloquium being given by Aruna Ranganathan, Associate Professor at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
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