Crafting India's Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations [Paperback]

1. Introduction Section I: Historical approaches to the study of the skill ecology??2.?Skilling and mis-skilling managers: The Indian Institute of Management, business education, and Indian capitalism, 1964 - 1980?3.?Having time passed: Education, skill development, control, and labour in prisons of colonial India?4.?Practicing skills, processing skins: Urdu manuals on developing tanning as a rural trade (1940-1946)?Section II: Skill as making, producing, doing?5.?Skills, caste, and class in an eastern Indian steel town, 1950s-2000s?6.?Haptic knowledge: Artisanal skills, labour, and embodied knowledge practices?7.?Skilling as a mode of doing: Techniques and trajectories of street vending in Delhis weekly bazaars?Section III: Skilling at the margins of the skill ecology?8.The skills of city-makers: Waste-work in small-town India?9.?Beyond the algorithm: The significance of skill in platform work?10.?Learning computers: Skilling, working, and waiting in Seelampur?Section IV: Sociology of vocational training 11. Towards a gender transformative vision of TVET in India: Student experiences and labour market trajectories in India's contemporary TVET??12.?Perceptions of teachers in Indian polytechnics: An exploratory study of the attractiveness in India in the higher vocational sector?13.?Employment challenges of the Indian youth: An overview of the Indian VET sector

This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era.

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