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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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Maruti-Suzuki

interview // hindi  // 9 Min // 08.10.2009  // Hits: 562

Gurgaon/Delhi, July 2009 - A union representative of Maruti-Suzuki who was fired during the lock-out in 2000/2001 speaks. In the course of a conflict about incentive schemes the salaried staff was reduced drastically.

Team: antonia, anne, zen
Licence: CCL A-NC-SA 3.0