Rural Labour in a Caste Polity: Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again by Jan Breman (2023): A Review by Madhuri Xalxo
Jan Breman’s book Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India,…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Masks Of Privilege: Indian Tech Workers Facing Covert Carcerality – Rianka Roy
Introduction Globalization is an ambivalent phenomenon. While creating a borderless world of boundless opportunities, it has expanded carceral control with…
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa (2023): A Review by Priyanjali Mitra
In his rich and detailed examination of corruption practices in the transport sector of Nigeria, Daniel Agbiboa offers an account…
Footloose and Bondage Labour and Agrarian Issues: An Interview with Jan Breman
Jan Breman is a Professor Emeritus at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. He has conducted…
Hidden Struggles: Unveilling the Gendered Challenges Of Women Tea Workers – Vaishali Saikia
Introduction The tea industry is the largest organized sector which employs millions of labourers – both permanent and temporary, most…
Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing edited by Sujata Patel, D Parthasarathy and George Jose (2022): A Review by Suraj Beri
The unpredictability of its economic transformations, the growth of its real estate markets, the competing jurisdictions of its governing systems,…
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (2004): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
Histories have not only been simply histories but gendered histories, where women, as both subject-object of studies and writer-reader of…
Work in the Unorganized Sector: The Case of Beedi Karkhana – Nishant Kumar Dongre
For many of us when we hear about karkhana (factory), we assume a fixed structure with walls and a roof…
In the Name of Love and Family: The Systematic Invisibilization of Women’s Work – Jyoti Kumari and Tahseen Fatima
“Kisi gurr banane wali se shadi karlo, mazdoori bhi nahi dena padega aur karz bhi nahi lena padega”, says Banerjee…