Oral History Documetnation of Industrial Closure in Delhi (2000-2001)

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This collection is created vide a unique project contemplated and carried out by the Integrated Labour History Research Programme of the V. V. Giri National Labour Institute.In this project, a group of six graduate students in History from Delhi University (Mr. Alberuni, Mr. Vinod Kumar, Mr. Bonojit Hussain, Mr. Gagan Kumar, Mr. Madhuresh Kumar and Mr. Y. Jilangamba S.) have designed and conducted a detailed oral history documentation of the impact of industrial closure on the dependent labour lives in Delhi Region, a situation emerged consequent to the Supreme Court verdict on evacuating the non-confirming industries from the residential areas to remote suburbs of the city. All the activities of the project, which include, preparation of detailed proposal, conduct of oral history document and the report writing were carried out by the students themselves, with the close supervision of Shri Mukul Maglik, Dr. Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Shri Babu P. Remesh. The present collection includes the final report, brief biography profiles and personal information of the interviewees. Apart from this , a comprehensive set of newspaper clippings on this subject is also included. The audio files and the transcripts of the interviewees would be added soon to this collection.

The complete collection comprises 9 subcollections. Those currently available are:

Commissions on Labour (1931-2000)
All India Trade Union Congress(1928-96)
Bombay Textile Strike-1982
Unorganised Workers of Delhi & The Seven Day Strike - 1988
Collection of Documentry Sources of Labour History of Tamil Nadu
Oral History of Labour Movement in India
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
Textile Labour in Ahmedabad
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