Redefined labour spaces : organising workers in post-liberalised India

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    • George, Sobin
    • Sinha, Shalini

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Redefined labour spaces : organising workers in post-liberalised India

edited by Sobin George and Shalini Sinha

(A Routledge India original)

Routledge, 2018

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors, and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing together studies of resistance, struggles and new forms of negotiations from different industries -agriculture, fisheries, brick kiln, plantations, IT, domestic workers, shipbreakers, sex workers, and miners -this book exposes the myths, realities and challenges that the present generation of workers in India face and struggle with. With contributions from leading thinkers in the field, the work deepens the understanding of the current Indian labour spaces, possibilities for contestations and articulations from below. The volume will be useful to students and researchers of labour studies, economics, sociology, development studies and public policy. It will be an invaluable resource to those engaged with industrial relations, trade unions, human rights, social exclusion as well as labour organisations and research institutions.

Table of Contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations Introduction. PART I THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LABOUR SPACE 1. Labourscape and Labour space in Post-Liberalised India: Critical Reflections 2. Unionisation in Post-Reform India: A Review of Trends and Trajectories 3. Globalisation Dynamics and the Working-Class Movement: An Agenda for Future PART II RESPONDING TO INFORMALITY: NEW APPROACHES 4. Breaking the Bondage: Organising Brick Kiln Workers in Rural Punjab 5. Safeguarding Livelihoods in Fisheries: A Complex Organisational Challenge 6. The Struggle for Space: Organising Street Vendors in India 7. Domestic Workers' Movement in Maharashtra: Organising Experiences of Pune City Domestic Workers' Organisation PART III NEW ARTICULATIONS 8. New Identities Require New Strategies: Union Formation in the Indian IT/ITES Sector 9. The SEWA Lok Swasthya Mandali: A Dual Experiment in Organising and Service Provisioning in Gujarat 10. "As Human Beings and As Workers": Sex Worker Unionisation in Karnataka, India 11. Organising the Unorganised: Academic and Activist Insights from Shipbreaking Yards in Mumbai PART IV THE NEW WAVES: MYTHS AND REALITIES 12. Mistaken Identities in Information Technology Sector in India: Implications for Unionisation 13. Possibilities and Barriers of Workers' Co-Operative: Lessons from Failed Takeover Experience of a Closed Mine in Jharkhand 14. Uprisings by Women in Tea Plantations: Contextualising the Pombilai Orumai Movement in Kerala. Glossary. Index

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  • NCID
    BB25025090
  • ISBN
    • 9781138201194
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Abingdon
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiii, 349 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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