The 1982-83 Bombay Textile Strike and the Unmaking of a Labourers' City

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Hub van Wersch, "The 1982-83 Bombay Textile Strike and the Unmaking of a Labourers' City"
English | ISBN: 9388874153 | 2019 | 616 pages | EPUB | 996 KB
The Bombay Textile Strike of 1982-83, directly involving a quarter million workers, lasted a year and a half and was, in numbers and duration, the greatest industrial cataclysm of its kind anywhere in the world. Yet ironically, despite its magnitude and the fundamental issues involved, scholarly attention has limited itself to specific aspects of the strike. This first fullscale study, based on intensive fieldwork and exceptionally rich, wide-ranging primary material, ably fills this lacuna and in the process explodes several myths about the strike, such as its essentially violent character.

Hub van Wersch provides a detailed analytical account of the events leading up to the strike, the strike itself and its aftermath against the wider backdrop of the Bombay textile industry and the Indian trade union tradition. He also examines how the workers coped with the strike, their living conditions, views, attitudes and motivations based on an extensive sample survey.
Hub van Wersch came to India for the first time in 1972. He married an Indian hailing from Maharashtra and has been visiting and studying the country since then. Van Wersch qualified as a social anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His study of the greatest industrial cataclysm of our time, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, was widely acclaimed as a substantial contribution to the understanding of the disastrous developments during that period.
Later van Wersch moved to different fields of activity (communication and politics). Apart from scientific contributions, he presently writes novels and short stories.
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