Redefined Labour Spaces Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

List 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

About the author

Sobin George is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India.
Shalini Sinha is the India Country Representative of the global action-research-policy network, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and is based in New Delhi, India.

Summary

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emergent collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. It will be an invaluable resource to those engaged with industrial relations, trade unions, human rights, so

Product details

• Assisted by: Shalini Sinha (Editor), Sobin George (Editor), George Sobin (Editor), Sinha Shalini (Editor)
• Authors: Sobin Sinha George, Sobin (Centre for Study of Social Change a George
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780367884055
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88405-5
• Pages: 350
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, India, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, Labour Economics, Industrialisation & Industrial History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrialisation and industrial history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, sex workers, street vendors, collective bargaining strategies, SEWA Member, NSSO Data, Waste Pickers, industrial relations India, RSBY, Post-reform Period, Shyam Sundar, gendered labour activism, social exclusion employment, labour movement case studies, worker resistance post-liberalisation India, Informal Sector Workers, Unorganised Sector, Brick Kiln, Brick Kiln Industry, UTUC, Shipbreaking Yards, Labour Market Reform Policies, Mainstream Trade Union, Labour Space, Shipbreaking Workers, Employed Women's Association, Redefined Labour Spaces