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Rahul S
Rahul S
PhD, Assistant Professor, Labour Market Research Facility, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai India
ChainGE Lab Senior Research Fellow
Rahul S is a Senior Research Fellow at ChainGE Lab (ERC), where his work advances the lab's mission of reimagining labour governance for a global value chain economy. He is Assistant Professor at the Labour Market Research Facility, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and holds a PhD and MPhil from TISS, an Masters in in Social Work from University of Kerala, and completed a fellowship at the University of Stockholm as a Linnaeus Palme Fellow. His research sits at the intersection of labour markets, global value chains, gender, and technological change, with a sustained focus on how supply chain capitalism shapes employment outcomes, contracting practices, and workers' rights across South and Southeast Asia.Rahul is a contributing author to Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour and Environmental Injustice (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which examines how monopsony power in global production systems generates gender, labour, and environmental injustice — questions central to ChainGE Lab's agenda of aligning labour governance with the power dynamics of GVCs. He has led and contributed to major applied research projects commissioned by the International Labour Organisation, INKOTA, Transform Trade, GIZ, CIVIDEP India, and the Global Labor Justice–International Labor Rights Forum, spanning living wage estimation, wage theft, grievance and remedy mechanisms, and human rights due diligence across garment, leather, footwear, and electronics value chains. His expertise spans primary field-level studies as well as structured data and quantitative analysis, enabling him to bridge rigorous academic inquiry with applied, field-based engagement — making him a strong contributor to ChainGE Lab's interdisciplinary approach to workers' rights in supply chain capitalism.
Research at ChainGE Lab: Working on the agenda of Sustainable Global Value Chains from an empirical approach using global datasets and primary studies.
Research at ChainGE Lab: Working on the agenda of Sustainable Global Value Chains from an empirical approach using global datasets and primary studies.