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Abstract As per latest estimates, India is home to 1.42 billion (about 17.8% of the global population). Given the young demography of India, it contributes a whopping 25% to the global workforce. India is also one of the fastest growing economies and is currently the fifth-largest economy and expected to become the third-largest global economy by 2030. While 92% of the Indian work force works in the unorganized sectors (agriculture, cottage industry, home work / services), 8% of the workforce is working in organized sectors (in the enterprises owned by government and the private sector). In 2021, 43.96% of the workforce was working in agriculture, 30.7% in services and 25.34% in the manufacturing sector. The change has been further accelerated by experiences and actions during COVID-19 and now there is a total revision of the process of globalization with global polarization. Determinants of decent work such as new technologies and new forms of work, demographics, globalization, informal work, migrants, OSH policies, pandemics and climate change will play a major role in shaping the future of work in India. The Ukraine war and Gaza conflict have added further complexities to the world of work. We need to review the global situation as regards the world of work, discuss the various pillars and determinants of decent work and the OSH aspects, deliberate on the emerging physical and psychosocial risks and challenges, and propose OSH as a holistic life course perspective. The Indian Association of Occupational Health and occupational health physicians need to play a role in developing solutions.
Shyam Pingle (Mon,) studied this question.
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