Redefined Labour Spaces

<p>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. Bringing together studies of resistance, struggles and new forms of negotiations from different industries — agriculture, fisheries, brick kiln, plantations, IT sector, domestic workers, ship breakers, sex workers, miners — this book exposes the myths, realities and challenges that the present generation of workers in India faces and struggles 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. </p><p>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.</p> <p><em>List of Figures. List of Tables. Contributors. Foreword </em>by Renana Jhabvala <em>Acknowledgements.</em> <em>Abbreviations</em> <b>Introduction. </b><b>PART I:</b> <b>THE</b> <b>CONTEMPORARY</b> <b>INDIAN</b> <strong>LABOUR SPACE </strong><strong>1.</strong> Labourscape and Labourspace in Post Liberalised India: Critical Reflections <strong>2.</strong> Unionisation in Post Reform India: A Review of Trends and Trajectories<i> </i><strong>3.</strong> Globalisation Dynamics and the Working Class Movement: An Agenda for Future <strong>PART II: </strong><strong>RESPONDING TO INFORMALITY: NEW APPROACHES </strong><strong>4.</strong> Breaking the Bondage: Organising Brick Kiln Workers in Rural Punjab <strong>5.</strong> Safeguarding Livelihoods in Fisheries—A Complex Organisational Challenge <strong>6.</strong> The Struggle for Space: Organising Street Vendors in India <strong>7.</strong> Domestic Worker’s Movement in Maharashtra: Organising Experiences of Pune City Domestic Workers’ Organisation <strong>PART III: NEW ARTICULATIONS 8</strong>. New identities require New Strategies: Union Formation in the Indian IT/ITES Sector <strong>9.</strong> The SEWA Lok Swasthya Mandali: A Dual Experiment in Organising and Service Provisioning in Gujarat <strong>10.</strong> ‘As Human Beings and As Workers’: Sex Worker Unionisation in Karnataka, India <strong>11.</strong> Organising the Unorganised: Academic and Activist Insights from Shipbreaking Yards in Mumbai <strong>PART IV: THE </strong><strong>NEW WAVES: MYTHS AND REALITIES </strong><strong>12.</strong> Mistaken Identities in Information Technology Sector in India: Implications for Unionisation <strong>13.</strong> Possibilities and Barriers of Workers’ Co-operative: Lessons from Failed Takeover Experience of a Closed Mine in Jharkhand <strong>14.</strong> Uprisings by Women in Tea Plantations: Contextualising the <i>Pombilaiorumai</i> Movement in Kerala<i>. </i><i>Glossary. Index</i></p>