“That is why it is crucial to engage with such issues. Our work was largely carried out in labour-intensive contexts and since the language of academia is not easily understood, we have tried to convey our findings in a manner that would reach a wider audience,” says Satyavrat KK, Communications Manager at Good Business Lab (GBL).

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According to Satyavrat, the garment and vehicle business in addition to the rising gig financial system command a big portion of India’s workforce. A gig financial system might be outlined as a labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work versus everlasting jobs.

“Our aim was to give an introduction to specific industries and provoke thought about the lives of blue collar workers. Though we interact with them on a daily basis, we are also quite alienated from them. Shades Of Blue helps forge a deeper connect by presenting a summary of people’s day-to-day lives and how it contrasts with our own,” he says.

The crew at GBL believed such a show was essential as it might have extra folks partaking in rising points concerning the labour financial system and labour market. “Based on our research, we wanted to showcase the lives of people working in two specific sectors — one from the garment industry and another from the gig economy, personified by a cab driver from one of many digital platforms that almost all of us engage with.”

The challenge design crew of Good Business Lab went into the main points of qualitative analysis and created two composite characters whose ‘day in the life of’ is what guests to the exhibition will expertise. Both material and denim cloth have been used within the shows, most of which sport QR codes for events to comply with up on GBL’s work in that space.

Shades of Blue is introduced by Good Business Lab in partnership with Alliance Française de Bangalore and might be on view from January 21-31, 2023.