India’s Gig Workforce Dilemma
Employment of gig and platform workers has grown faster than economic growth, with elasticities exceeding those of the overall labour market in every round between 2011–12 and 2019–20 (NITI Aayog, 2022). Sometimes hailed as a success of digital modernisation, this is, nevertheless, an underlying and distressing structural transformation from a Swadeshi perspective: economic growth is…









