FARIDABAD WORKERS NEWS
In the south of Delhi, there is a huge industrial area encompassing the cities of Gurgaon (2.2 million inhabitants), Faridabad (1.5 million), Noida, and Okhla. Here the masses of people who fled from rural poverty provide an apparently inexhaustible pool of manpower. They work for the textile, auto, and software industries in call centres, factories, backyards, and slums. For 27 years a workers’ newspaper has been published in Faridabad, documenting the constant struggles in the factories with the goal of establishing a proletarian public sphere among the workers.
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Many Straws Make A Nest
In the last 20 years, the Delhi region has turned into one of the
world's major industrial hubs. The required workforce is recruited from India's poorer regions, where survival is being made more and more difficult for the rural populace.
This is why 4.5 million industrial workers in Southern Delhi are willing
to ruin their health for wages their families can hardly survive on. -
People are almost powerless in this situation, but still they try to
find effective ways to collectively resist.
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