Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India (2023)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026

At the 2019 general election in India, the BJP succeeded in gaining more of the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC vote. This chapter highlights the everyday politics of social oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits and Adivasis in India. India is a society... Read More about Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.

Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia (2022)
Report
Bosc, I., Lerche, J., Shah, A., Fajerman, M., & Wadhawan, N. (2022). Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia

Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy (2022)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J. (2022). Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy. In E. Baglioni, L. Campling, N. M. Coe, & A. Smith (Eds.), Labour Regimes and Global Production. Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2b6z898

The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2021). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2021). Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India. Anveshi broadsheet on contemporary politics, 13-15

Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2021). Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815

Piketty's propositions for arresting inequality are discussed through the lens of racism/casteism. We focus on the case of India's George Floyds—the persistence of caste and tribe oppression under economic growth in India—through the insights of our... Read More about Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.

The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion

Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown. [Blog post]

Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India (2020)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(4), 719-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12401

This paper focuses on the processes of migrant labour exploitation which are crucial for capitalist growth and the inequalities they generate. Ethnographic research conducted in different sites across India shows how patterns of seasonal labour migra... Read More about Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.