From field to factory : tracing bonded labour in the Coimbatore powerloom industry, Tamil Nadu
Abstract
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. Focussing on a village outside Tiruppur, we trace the gradual transformation, and ultimate disappearance of forms of labour bondage in agriculture. The paper examines the differences and similarities between past agricultural and current industrial labour bondage, and how it is experienced and talked about by both employers and workers.
Citation
Carswell, G.; de Neve, G. From field to factory : tracing bonded labour in the Coimbatore powerloom industry, Tamil Nadu. (2011) : 24 pp.
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Published 1 January 2011