Essays
Essays
Longer-form analysis, argument, and interpretation across labour-tech questions.
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Telangana’s Gig Worker Law and the Return of the State
Telangana’s new gig worker law does not resolve the employment-status question, but it does mark a break with the long regulatory absence that allowed platforms to govern labour with minimal accountability.
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Who Pays for the AI Transition?
Oracle’s layoffs show how the AI transition is being financed: by cutting labour to fund capital-intensive cloud and data-centre buildout — with the contradiction especially sharp in India.
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Labour as Bottleneck in the Age of AI
As AI systems become increasingly capable across cognitive work, the central issue is not only automation but the changing balance of dependence between capital and labour.