Redefined Labour Spaces

List of Figures. List of Tables. Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations Introduction. PART I THE CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LABOUR SPACE 1. Labourscape and Labour space in Post-Liberalised India: Critical Reflections 2. Unionisation in Post-Reform India: A Review of Trends and Trajectories 3. Globalisation Dynamics and the Working-Class Movement: An Agenda for Future PART II RESPONDING TO INFORMALITY: NEW APPROACHES 4. Breaking the Bondage: Organising Brick Kiln Workers in Rural Punjab 5. Safeguarding Livelihoods in Fisheries: A Complex Organisational Challenge 6. The Struggle for Space: Organising Street Vendors in India 7. Domestic Workers’ Movement in Maharashtra: Organising Experiences of Pune City Domestic Workers’ Organisation PART III NEW ARTICULATIONS 8. New Identities Require New Strategies: Union Formation in the Indian IT/ITES Sector 9. The SEWA Lok Swasthya Mandali: A Dual Experiment in Organising and Service Provisioning in Gujarat 10. "As Human Beings and As Workers": Sex Worker Unionisation in Karnataka, India 11. Organising the Unorganised: Academic and Activist Insights from Shipbreaking Yards in Mumbai PART IV THE NEW WAVES: MYTHS AND REALITIES 12. Mistaken Identities in Information Technology Sector in India: Implications for Unionisation 13. Possibilities and Barriers of Workers’ Co-Operative: Lessons from Failed Takeover Experience of a Closed Mine in Jharkhand 14. Uprisings by Women in Tea Plantations: Contextualising the Pombilai Orumai Movement in Kerala. Glossary. Index