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How Places Matter

Vol. 57, Issue No. 5, 29 Jan, 2022
Swathi Shivanand, R Prathibha

The paper looks at the phenomenon of forced resignations in the garment industry in Karnataka during the pandemic. It demonstrates how workers’ responses to forced resignations were determined by whether they were located in the city (Bengaluru) or a small town (Srirangapatna) and calls for an engagement with the local geographies to understand the experiences of women garment workers.

 

The RMG Industry

Vol. 55, Issue No. 30, 25 Jul, 2020
Anu Muhammad

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World’s Garment Workers edited by Rebecca Prentice and Geert De Neve, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; pp viii + 291, ₹7,652.

Fifty Days of Lockdown in India: A View from Two Villages in Tamil Nadu

Vol. 55, Issue No. 25, 20 Jun, 2020
Villagers in Tiruppur district in Tamil Nadu, India’s largest knitwear manufacturing and export hub, face different levels of hardship due to the lockdown in the wake of COVID-19. This article details the coping strategies of garment, power loom, and agricultural workers in two villages—Allapuram and Mannapalayam.

Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 Fails to Address Changing Forms of Labour Exploitation

Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 Jul, 2018
The recently passed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 is woefully unaware of the present context of globalisation and the changing forms of labour dispossession and exploitation.
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