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About
Collection
The
collection on the “Unorganised Worker Of Delhi And The
Seven Day Strike Of 1988” is part of a larger design to
create archival record of contemporary movements and
experience of labour that is so often easily lost to view.
This is all the more true in a country like India where
increasing numbers of workers are outside the reach of
official recording systems. The study is important as it
has collated and given voice to the dispersed memories and
documentary traces of a strike of unorganised workers in
Delhi whose scope and scale far outstripped the strength
of the organisation that called for it. As a result, Delhi
has among the highest official minimum wages in the
country. This collection comprises of recorded audio
interviews of about 30 hrs (please check) duration. The
collection comprises of pamphlets and records of meetings
of trade unions and mass organisations, newspaper articles
documenting the strike and a slum map of Delhi.
Through
recording and recovering the experiences of participants
in this struggle, the study contains observations and
descriptions of life processes and experiences of
individuals and communities within the metropolitan
working class of Delhi. Along with that a history of the
metropolis also emerges as it undergoes a transition from
being a traditional administrative centre to an industrial
centre of considerable importance with waves of migrant
workers flocking the city in search of employment and a
better life.
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