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Call
for Project Proposals
The
Integrated Labour History Research Programme (ILHRP) of
the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA invites
proposals on research and collection projects from
institutions and individuals working on labour history.
The core activity of the ILHRP is the building up and
maintenance of a Digital Archive of Indian Labour, which
is the first of its kind in India. The archive
systematically preserves documents relating to labour
movement, as well as historical documents generated by the
state, trade unions and the business enterprises.
Contemporary documents and other materials like personal
narratives; video and audio material related to labour are
also preserved in the archive.
The
proposals are invited for the next set of research and
collection projects of ILHRP, to be commenced in early
2008. The current priority areas of the programme
include:
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Informal Sector Labour History; Collections on
/Documentation of Central Trade Unions
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Central Government Labour Record
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Collections on /Documentation of Labour in Textile
Sector
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Oral
History Collections
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Documentation of New Forms of Work Organisation and
Changing Employment Relations
Applicants are requested to send a detailed proposal
(about 1500-2000 words) indicating the objectives,
proposed methodology, timeframe, budget and output of the
study as well as highlighting its relevance. Each project
is expected to build up a collection of documents on the
selected theme, apart from the preparation of a detailed
report. The collection thus generated would eventually be
digitized and stored in the archive.
Archives of Indian Labour encourages professional
institutions and trained researchers as well as trade
unionists, practitioners and activists with known track
record to join in the unique venture of constructing an
apex repository for the documents on Indian working class
movement. Among individual applicants, preference would be
given to youngsters (such as M.Phil, Ph.D. students,
junior faculty members and young activists).
Short-term (6-10 months) and modestly budgeted proposals
would be given preference. Submitted proposals will be
examined by an expert panel comprising of eminent labour
historians and practitioners. For further details on ILHRP
and the archive, visit us at www.indialabourarchives.org.
The proposal along with brief curriculum vitae of the
principal investigator (s)/ key resource persons (s) may
be forwarded to:
Coordinator
(Integrated Labour History Research Programme/Archives of
Indian Labour)
V.V
Giri National Labour Institute
Sector
–24, NOIDA-201301
Uttar
Pradesh, India
(E-mail:
shram_nli@vsnl.com)
Deadline for receiving the proposals: 31 October 2007
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