Does cultural economics affect country’s competitiveness?

Abstract

The labour is most exploitative form of social and economic arrangement. Since the time of slaves to the story of the sooty chimney workers in the factories, to the infamous plantation labourers in the imperial gardens and tea plantations in Burma; the labour enlists the stories of human debasement and cultural onslaught. There is history, gender, race and colour behind the determination of exploitative labour. The body of a labour and his soul are drained out of him to complete the sketches of imperial designs and social structures. In contemporary times, the capitalistic system and by its extension the modern capitalistic states continued to pile-up misery on this producing class of society. While as socialists failed to produce a practical model to elevate labour from its position, the story of labour leaves behind the same trajectory of loss and deprivation. This study aims to trace the stories of labour from Ibis trilogy to the present time 'need based institutional labour'. The intersection of theories and literary perspectives to understand the story of labour and relate it to the present context of exploitation is likely to open academic research in the contemporary institutional arrangements of labour. The study aims to fills the gap in the reading of Amitav Ghosh's labour consciousness in a contemporary context of negotiating the labour engagements.

Keyword : Indentured Labour, Need based labour, Academic need-based arrangement, Local fund employee, Pervasive Lives, Happiness.