Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Jagannathan, Srinath"
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The funeralesque as the experience of workers at the margins of international business: Seven Indian narratives
Joseph, Jerome; Jagannathan, Srinath; Selvaraj, Patturaja (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)Purpose: This paper aims to show that the experience of workers on the margins of international business is akin to the funeralesque. The funeralesque is understood as the appropriation of the value generated by workers ... -
Narrative worlds of frugal consumers: unmasking romanticized spirituality to reveal responsibilization and de-politicization
Jagannathan, Srinath; Bawa, Anupam; Rai, Rajnish (Journal of Business Ethics, 2020)Extant literature romanticizes frugality as a lifestyle trait that helps in the spiritual evolution of consumers, which in turn enables them in overcoming the negative consequences of materialism and over-consumption. ... -
The necropolitics of neoliberal state response to the Covid-19 pandemic in India
Jagannathan, Srinath; Rai, Rajnish (SAGE Publications, 2021-05-29)We draw from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in India to outline that the neoliberal consolidation of the state is enabled by precariousness, violence, and inequality in overlapping planes of marginality. The ... -
Three representations of insecurity in three narratives of unorganized workers
Joseph, Jerome; Jagannathan, Srinath (Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 2013)Introduction Theoretical effort depicts job insecurity as "the severity of the threat to one's job and powerlessness to counteract the threat" (Greenhalgh Rosenblatt, 1984:440), thus suggesting that there are two [...] Three ... -
Understanding trade union existence in the Zeitgeist of the global: an interpretive journey
Jagannathan, Srinath; Roy, Kaushik (2009-05-03)Trade unions represent employee collec tives ' voice to otherwise disaggregated employees to check the arbitrary use of managerial power. In the age of globalisation, where state policy, free movement of capital ...