As the politicization of cultural identities—based on religion, ethnicity, gender, race—has come to play a central role in shaping relations between and among peoples, issues of difference raise unsettling questions about how identities overlap and group interests are represented. Using the jute mills of Calcutta as a case study, Leela Fernandes reveals that these interconnections play a fundamental role in shaping both the political actions of workers and the representation of their interests.
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"Producing Workers elegantly and poignantly illuminates the complex interplay between working class politics, gender, and cultural identities within the confines of Calcutta's jute mills. . . . A fascinating and important study of identity politics in contemporary India."—Journal of Asian History
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On November 9, 1991, the workers of the weaving department of a jute mill in Calcutta participated in a wildcat strike to protest the suspension of four workers, including the general secretary of one of the leading trade unions in the factory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jute working class, one labor officer, jute workers, monolithic working class, labor lines, subaltern public sphere, gendered public sphere, national labor day, weaving department, jute mills, raw jute, central trade unions, labor officers, jute factory, jute industry, spinning department, industrial arena, factory compound, factory politics, hegemonic representations, particular social location, women workers, hegemonic narratives, religious ritual practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Bengal, Left Front, United States, Andhra Pradesh, Durga Puja, Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Party, Indian Jute Mills Association, Third World, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Village Committee, Works Committee, All-India Trade Union Congress, Communist Party of India, Das Gupta, Dipesh Chakrabarty New!
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On November 9, 1991, the workers of the weaving department of a jute mill in Calcutta participated in a wildcat strike to protest the suspension of four workers, including the general secretary of one of the leading trade unions in the factory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jute working class, one labor officer, jute workers, monolithic working class, labor lines, subaltern public sphere, gendered public sphere, national labor day, weaving department, jute mills, raw jute, central trade unions, labor officers, jute factory, jute industry, spinning department, industrial arena, factory compound, factory politics, hegemonic representations, particular social location, women workers, hegemonic narratives, religious ritual practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Bengal, Left Front, United States, Andhra Pradesh, Durga Puja, Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress Party, Indian Jute Mills Association, Third World, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Village Committee, Works Committee, All-India Trade Union Congress, Communist Party of India, Das Gupta, Dipesh Chakrabarty New!
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- Habermas and the Public Sphere (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Craig Calhoun on 4 pages
- Women in Colonial India by J. Krishnamurty in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States by William H. Sewell Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts by Professor James C. Scott in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice by Marianne DeKoven on page 105, page 108, and Back Matter
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- Gendering Labor History (Working Class in American History) by ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" by Wendy Hesford on page 73, and Back Matter
- Everyday Life in South Asia by Diane P. Mines in Back Matter
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