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About
Collection
Death
of an industrial city: Testimonies of life around Bombay
textile strike 1982-84 is a collection of oral and
documented history that goes beyond recording events of
the strike. The Bombay textile strike of 1982-84 proved to
be a watershed in the history of Indian labour. The study
is an important contribution in efforts to explain
historical processes that led to transformation of Bombay
from a working class industrial city to the national hub
of financial services. It was and it is of paramount
importance to record perception of people about the Bombay
textile strike before the voice of the whole generation
fades out in the tract of time. The collection comprises
of recorded 16 audio interviews of about 30 hrs duration,
interview transcripts in English and a collection of
newspaper clippings stored in image form. The project
adopted a methodology that was suitable for exploring
social psychology. Most of the interviews are free flowing
giving a meaningful insight into the minds of workers and
those who lived through the historic strike.
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