India Labour Observatory
Stories
Monographs on Indian work: who does it, on what terms, and who decides. Each is built from the unit-level records MoSPI makes public, and every figure is checked against the tables MoSPI prints.
- India's Labour Market in 2025 The first calendar year of the labour survey, read from its records: who works, who cannot find work, and how unequally both are shared.
- The PLFS 2025 tables Every table of the first calendar-year survey, with its standard errors and its check against MoSPI’s print, to read and download.
- The Subcontracted Republic Fifty years of the Indian factory wage, and the worker hired through a contractor, now two in every five on the factory floor.