Producing workers : the politics of gender, class, and culture in the Calcutta jute mills / Leela Fernandes.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Critical historiesPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997.Description: xvi, 199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0812233727
- 9780812233728
- 0812215974
- 9780812215977
- Geschichte 1950-1997
- Jute industry workers -- India -- Kolkata
- Women -- Employment -- India -- Kolkata
- Discrimination in employment -- India -- Kolkata
- Jute -- Industrie -- Inde -- Kolkata -- Personnel
- Discrimination in employment
- Jute industry workers
- Women -- Employment
- Jute
- working class
- women workers
- political participation
- social implication
- cultural factor
- textile industry
- social class
- trade union role
- labour relations
- labour dispute
- dispute settlement
- employment
- conditions of employment
- sexual division of labour
- caste
- religion
- family
- family responsibilities
- community participation
- statistical table
- Jute -- Industrie et commerce -- Inde -- Calcutta (Inde)
- Travailleurs -- Inde -- Calcutta (Inde)
- Femmes -- Travail -- Inde -- Calcutta (Inde)
- Discrimination dans l'emploi -- Inde -- Calcutta (Inde)
- India -- Kolkata
- India
- KCF: Labour economics BIC
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Hegemonic inventions of the "working class" : the state, unions, and workers -- Shop-floor politics and the production of the labor market -- Manufacturing community : rituals of hegemony and resistance -- Gender, community, and the making of a worker's public sphere -- Stories of survival : location, difference, and the identities of women workers -- Conclusion : The politics of categories.
Based on a study of working-class politics in the Calcutta jute mills since the 1950s to the present, examines the ways boundaries between class, caste, gender, and community are the products of political processes that unfold through institutional, discursive, and everyday social and cultural practices.
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