Jammulamadaka Workers and Margins

Grasping Erasures and Opportunities
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-7876-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 313 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of 'work', 'workers' and 'margins'. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker visible, it seeks to go beyond economistic and psychological approaches to work(ing) to understand the worker as a human being, with all the complexity, vulnerability and agency that status implies. Further, it seeks to go beyond worker victimhood to gather narratives of workers' worlds and the possibility of alternate worlds. The contributing authors bring together diverse perspectives from fields including industrial relations, environment, displacement, collective action, livelihoods, rural development, MSMEs, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship to present a textured and multidimensional view of workers and their worlds.

Nimruji Prasad Jammulamadaka is an Associate Professor at the IIM Calcutta, India. Her previous books include Indian Business: Notions and Practices of Responsibility (2017) and Governance, Resistance and the Post-colonial State: Management and State Building (2017). A co-editor of the Springer Nature book series Managing the Post-colony, she has also served as Chair of the Critical Management Studies Division at the Academy of Management, USA. Contributors:
Anjula Gurtoo is Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Arpita Mathur is Research Assistant Professor in School of Management, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

Ashis Kumar Sahu has strategic and grassroots experience in sustainable energy, microfinance, and livelihoods and has led social enterprises balancing social mission with financial viability and now works as mentor, advisor, board member.

Bharat Patel has been working for the protection of livelihoods of the fisherfolk and the environment along Gujarat's coast for the last two decades. He currently works with CPR-NAMATI as senior Program Manager.

G. Krishnamurthi has served in the academic, business and government sectors for over 47 years. He specialises in the areas of strategy, development and project management.

Himanshi Rajora is currently a fourth year PhD student at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Jaya Kritika Ojha is a development academic and researcher. Jaya facilitates courses like Sustainable Livelihood Systems, Development Theories and Practices, Social Mobilisation, Collective Action and Commons at various universities.

Jerome Joseph is currently Chair Professor, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India.

Masoom Suchdeo is a student of the Integrated Programme in Management at Indian Institute of Management Indore, India.

Patturaja Selvaraj works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Rahul Tripathi is Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Goa University, India.

Rajesh Bhattacharya is Associate Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India.

Ravindra Sharma, the founder of Kala Ashram, in Adilabad, Telangana was a Gandhian artisanal thinker. A believer of traditional wisdom, he had spent his lifetime in the cause of art and artisans of his region. He had uniquely distilled the socio-economic-political-spiritual essence of traditional Indian society. He passed away in April 2018.

Saikat Maitra is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Srabani Maitra is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Srinath Jagannathan teaches in Indian Institute of Management Indore, India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jammulamadaka, Nimruji

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgements;7
3;Contents;8
4;Notes on Contributors;11
5;List of Figures;14
6;List of Tables;15
7;Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Possibilities Within Management Studies;17
7.1;Management Perspectives on Workers: Inadequate Tools for an Urgent Job;20
7.2;Worker as the Protagonist, But What is the Locus of the Storyteller?;22
7.3;About the Book;26
7.4;References;32
8;Part I Conceptual Aspects on Workers and Margins;35
9;Skill Formation and Precarious Labour: The Historical Role of the Industrial Training Institutes in India 1950–2018;36
9.1;Introduction;36
9.2;Skill Training Policy in India: Some Recent Initiatives;38
9.3;Selection of Research Methods and Field-Sites;40
9.4;Historical Overview of Industrial Skill Training in India;42
9.4.1;The Period from 1950 to 1970;42
9.4.2;The Period from 1980s to the Present;44
9.5;A New Industrial Precariat?;45
9.6;Conclusion;53
9.6.1;The Discourse of Skill and Worker;53
9.7;References;56
10;Labour Beyond the Labour Market: Interrogating Marginality;59
10.1;Introduction;60
10.2;Economic Development and the Immanent History of Labour;62
10.3;From Wage-Employment to Self-Employment;66
10.4;Universal Basic Income and the Future of Work;69
10.5;Conclusion;73
10.6;References;74
11;Representations of Worker Marginalization and the Quest for Livelihood Justice;77
11.1;Introduction;77
11.2;Marginalization and the Stateless Refugee Worker;78
11.3;Marginalization and the Citizen-Worker;83
11.4;Theorizing Worker Marginalization—Or the Marginalized Worker?;88
11.5;The Quest for Livelihood Justice;95
11.6;Conclusion;98
11.7;References;100
12;Death of the Artisan: An Indigenous View on Marginalization;102
12.1;Introduction;102
12.2;Adilabad’s Ravindra Sharma a.k.a Guruji;103
12.3;Context of the Conversation;105
12.4;Ways of Value and Valuing;108
12.5;System of Value;113
12.6;Colonization and Poverty;117
12.7;Development and Income Generation;119
12.8;Marginalization: An Indigenous View;121
12.9;References;122
13;Part II Being Marginal;124
14;The Literary Worlds of Workers: Narratives of Art from the Margins;125
14.1;Introduction;125
14.2;The Literary Worlds of Workers: Between Disobedience and Consent;127
14.3;Methods;130
14.4;Narratives: The Everyday Literary Worlds of Workers;134
14.5;The Joke and the Mask of Indecency;135
14.6;The Horror Story and the Other-Worldliness of Harm;138
14.7;Discussion: Literary Tropes and the Possibility of Living;141
14.8;Conclusion;144
14.9;References;145
15;The Cosmos of a Public Sector Township: Democracy as an Intellectual Culture;147
15.1;Introduction;147
15.2;Township Cultures: Melancholia, Intellectual Cultures, Threats;150
15.3;Methods;154
15.4;Findings: Narratives of Community, Friendship and Citizenship;157
15.4.1;Friendship, Leisure, Melancholia;157
15.4.2;Exclusions, Tensions, Aspirations;160
15.5;Discussion: Life in the Public Sector Township and the Possibility of Citizenship;163
15.6;Conclusion;165
15.7;References;166
16;Marginality and Its Contestations: A Case of Mining Affected in Goa;168
16.1;Introduction;168
16.2;Mining in Goa: A Background;169
16.3;Cavrem Village as a Site of Contestation;173
16.4;Analyzing Marginality: Perceptions from the Field;178
16.5;Annexure 1;183
16.6;References;184
17;The Antipower of the Marginalized: A Postcolonial Perspective;186
17.1;Introduction;186
17.2;Establishing the “Marginal” as a Category;187
17.3;Methodology;188
17.4;Sushila Devi’s Background;189
17.5;What Is Marginalization?;191
17.6;Midwifery as a Social Practice;191
17.7;Intersectionality;194
17.8;The Antipower of the Marginalized;197
17.9;A Postcolonial Understanding of the Antipower of the Marginalized;199
17.10;References;201
18;Occupational Prestige and Informal Work: Women Domestic Workers in India;203
18.1;Introduction;203
18.2;Contextualizing Domestic Work;204
18.2.1;The Role of Empowerment Dynamics;205
18.2.2;The Theoretical Framework;206
18.3;Methodology and the Empirical Model;207
18.3.1;The Survey;207
18.3.2;The Measures;209
18.3.3;Empirical Model for Analysis;210
18.4;Results;212
18.4.1;Test of Significant Differences for Employer Behaviour and Occupational Prestige;212
18.4.2;Predictors of Occupational Prestige;214
18.4.3;Impact of Social and Economic Empowerment Factors;216
18.5;Discussion: Significance of the Results;218
18.6;References;220
19;Part III Surviving Marginalisation;224
20;Pulling the Marginalized Out of Margins: Role of Mobilization, Collectivization and Livelihood Interventions;225
20.1;Background;225
20.2;Empowering the Marginalized;227
20.3;Methodology;227
20.4;Collectivization and Communitization of People in Ushering Changes: A Case from Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India)-Bihar;228
20.4.1;The Context and Issues;228
20.4.2;The Project;229
20.4.3;Interventions;230
20.4.4;Impact;234
20.5;Reclamation of Ravines Through Collectivization and Strengthening Livelihoods Security in Morena District: A Case of Sujagriti Sansthan, Madhya Pradesh;234
20.5.1;The Context and Issues;234
20.5.2;The Project Organisation: Sujagriti Samaj Seva Sansthan (SSSS);236
20.5.3;The Interventions of SSSS in Morena District;237
20.5.4;Impact;238
20.6;Empowering Brick Kiln Workers in Thar Desert: A Case from Urmul Khejri Sansthan (UKS), Rajasthan;239
20.6.1;The Context;239
20.6.2;The Project Organisation—Urmul Khejri Sansthan (UKS);240
20.6.3;The Interventions;241
20.6.4;The Future;243
20.7;Findings and Discussion;244
20.8;References;251
21;Getting Marginalized and Surviving;252
21.1;Introduction;252
21.2;The Pagadiyas of Kutch;253
21.3;How the Marginalization Set In;256
21.4;Surviving Marginalization and Fighting for Justice;258
21.4.1;Financial Recovery and Model of Participatory Business;260
21.5;Marginalization to Recovery: Outcomes of a United Mass of Fishers;260
21.5.1;The Overall Impact of the Movement;261
21.6;Conclusion: Proposal for an Ecologically Sensitive Area Demarcation;263
21.7;Reference;264
22;Leather Artisans-Workers and Global Value Chains: Protecting Autonomy, Enacting Dissent;265
22.1;Global Value Chains;267
22.2;Codes and Workers;268
22.3;Data and Method;269
22.4;Kolkata’s Leather Industry;271
22.4.1;Work Organization;273
22.4.2;Salaried Work Model;274
22.5;Findings;275
22.5.1;Worker Demographics;275
22.5.2;Employment and Working Conditions;276
22.5.3;Working Conditions;278
22.5.4;What Was Valued in an Employer?;278
22.5.5;Workers Perceptions of Statutory Benefits;279
22.5.6;Worker Perceptions About Salary and Piece-Rate Jobs;282
22.6;Insights and Implications;285
22.7;References;288
23;CSOs, Livelihoods, and Margins;291
23.1;Introduction;291
23.2;CSOs in India;292
23.3;CSOs and Livelihoods;294
23.4;Different Perspectives, Same Goal;296
23.5;Programmes;298
23.5.1;Access to Work;298
23.5.2;Access to Market;299
23.5.3;Fair Payment;300
23.5.4;Ownership Over Resources Providing Livelihoods;302
23.5.5;Services for the Worker/Labour;303
23.6;CSO as an Employer;304
24;Index;306