(copied from http://www.wolvo.net/gallery/v/Mumbai+Slum+Dwellers_001/)The modern world system and globalization have certainly affected the slums in India. As call centers and the need for Indian exports have increased the need for cheap labor, the existence of slums has increased as well. The growth of cities means employment opportunities, hence the growth of the slums (Nationalgeographic.com, 2007). The slum dwellers are poor people who either move from city to city in search of work or they have lived in the slums for years working the same trade for next to nothing. Globalization has brought work to Mumbai, and the slum dwellers do the jobs that others are unwilling to.
"Today the outward story of India is one of a boom, of new construction projects, of growth. But that boom is on the backs of the poor and lower castes who are building this new India," said Mridula Bajaj, former executive director of Mobile Creches (Wax, 2008).
