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Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Nidhi Tandon,Pratyusha Basu,Omkumar Krishnan,Bhavani R.V.

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Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Nidhi Tandon,Pratyusha Basu,Omkumar Krishnan,Bhavani R.V.

This book offers an overview of India’s emerging digital economy and the resulting challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces. It examines contemporary economic and social transformations in India by focusing on how new technologies and policies are shaping urban work practices and patterns. The book emphasizes inclusive and equitable practices that consider the needs of the formal and informal sector workforce as essential to India’s urban development. Drawing on cross-disciplinary frameworks, it examines key issues related to work trends in the Indian urban economy and its digital landscapes, including Industry 4.0 and technology–labour nexus, smart cities and innovation, urbanism and consumerism, workplace transitions such as service industry and remote work, digital divide, skill development initiatives, and the impact of socio-economic inequalities and disruptions. The authors provide perspectives on the digital future of urban work in India and other emerging economies in the post-COVID-19 phase, and underscore the importance of enacting balanced policies, remodelling institutions, and equipping the labour force for adapting to new demands related to future employability and investments. This book will interest students, teachers, and researchers of urban studies, urban sociology, sociology of work, labour studies, human and urban geography, economic geography, urban economics, development studies, urban development and planning, public policy, regional planning, politics of urban development, social and cultural change, urban sustainability, environmental studies, management studies, South Asian Studies, and Global South studies. It will also be useful to policymakers, non-governmental organizations, activists, and those interested in India and the future of the global economy.

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1000541061

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Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Making Place for Rural Development

By: Pratyusha Basu

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Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Making Place for Rural Development

By: Pratyusha Basu

India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of national and international development agencies. Within such official narratives, there has been relatively little engagement with the geographies of dairy development, both its place-specific productions through political contests, availabilities of labor, and distributions of agricultural resources, and the unevenness of its outcomes across rural India. This absence is even more surprising given that village-level cooperatives comprise the foundation of India's dairy development program, and the work of women within rural households is continuously invoked as an integral part of the dairy work. This book extends and enriches current understandings of cooperative dairying in India to show both its value to rural communities as well as the limitations of its participatory structures. Combining comparative and ethnographic approaches, explanations for the diverse outcomes of cooperative dairying are provided from the perspective of the people and places directly involved in the everyday reproductions of rural development. This book contributes to existing understandings of rural development and rural geographies in four significant ways. First, by following histories of development from their local origins to their national and international appearances, the global genealogies that are usually attached to development are rendered more complex. Second, by connecting cooperatives to place, the ways in which participation in development reflects local struggles for power and, hence, are structured through local inequalities, is revealed. Third, by linking dairying and agriculture, the continuing importance of resource distributions in shaping the outcomes of rural development is highlighted. Finally, the crucial role of household divisions of labor in the success of village dairy cooperatives is explicated through showing how struggles over the meanings of rural women's work become key to enabling household-level participation in dairying. This book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, including geography, sociology, anthropology, rural studies, development studies, gender studies, and regional studies of India.

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Cambria Press

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160497625X

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Principles in Noisy Optimization

Applied to Multi-agent Coordination

By: Pratyusha Rakshit,Amit Konar

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Principles in Noisy Optimization

Applied to Multi-agent Coordination

By: Pratyusha Rakshit,Amit Konar

Noisy optimization is a topic of growing interest for researchers working on mainstream optimization problems. Although several techniques for dealing with stochastic noise in optimization problems are covered in journals and conference proceedings, today there are virtually no books that approach noisy optimization from a layman’s perspective; this book remedies that gap. Beginning with the foundations of evolutionary optimization, the book subsequently explores the principles of noisy optimization in single and multi-objective settings, and presents detailed illustrations of the principles developed for application in real-world multi-agent coordination problems. Special emphasis is given to the design of intelligent algorithms for noisy optimization in real-time applications. The book is unique in terms of its content, writing style and above all its simplicity, which will appeal to readers with a broad range of backgrounds. The book is divided into 7 chapters, the first of which provides an introduction to Swarm and Evolutionary Optimization algorithms. Chapter 2 includes a thorough review of agent architectures for multi-agent coordination. In turn, Chapter 3 provides an extensive review of noisy optimization, while Chapter 4 addresses issues of noise handling in the context of single-objective optimization problems. An illustrative case study on multi-robot path-planning in the presence of measurement noise is also highlighted in this chapter. Chapter 5 deals with noisy multi-objective optimization and includes a case study on noisy multi-robot box-pushing. In Chapter 6, the authors examine the scope of various algorithms in noisy optimization problems. Lastly, Chapter 7 summarizes the main results obtained in the previous chapters and elaborates on the book’s potential with regard to real-world noisy optimization problems.

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Springer

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9811086427

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Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Nidhi Tandon,Pratyusha Basu,Omkumar Krishnan,Bhavani R.V.

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COVID-19 and Beyond

By: Nidhi Tandon,Pratyusha Basu,Omkumar Krishnan,Bhavani R.V.

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Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Making Place for Rural Development

By: Pratyusha Basu

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Making Place for Rural Development

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Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Principles in Noisy Optimization

Principles in Noisy Optimization

Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

Emerging Work Trends in Urban India

Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

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