Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
Part 1: Context
	Chapter 1: Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent
		1.1: Preamble
		1.2: A ‘tragedy of development’?
		1.3: An instantiation of the dream?
		1.4: A short guide to the text
	Chapter 2: Classes of Labour
		2.1: The temptations of teleology
		2.2: On the concept of class
		2.3: Citadel or mountain?
		2.4: Naukri and kam
		2.5: Jobs as property
		2.6: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 3: Building Bhilai
		3.1: An Industrial ‘monoculture’
		3.2: Pioneer stories and the development of class differentiation
		3.3: The space of the town
		3.4: Peripheral bastis
		3.5: Of settlers and sojourners
		3.6: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 4: The Price of Modernity
		4.1: Preamble
		4.2: Displacement
		4.3: Churning
		4.4: In the happy world of the fields
		4.5: Sacrifice
		4.6: A summary conclusion
Part 2: Work
	Chapter 5: A Post in the Plant
		5.1: Framing
		5.2: Recruitment and the reproduction of the workforce
		5.3: Reservations
		5.4: Compassionate appointments
		5.5: ‘Source’ and ‘note’
		5.6: Promotions
		5.7: The size of the purse
		5.8: Moonlighting
		5.9: The status situation of BSP workers
		5.10: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 6: The Work Situation of BSP Labour
		6.1: Preamble
		6.2: On the shop floor in the 1990s
		6.3: Changes on the shop floor (2006)
		6.4: Contract labour in the Plant
		6.5: The working world of contract labour
		6.6: Union politics in the Plant
		6.7: The unions in the mines
		6.8: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 7: Private Sector Industry
		7.1: Framing
		7.2: Private industry and the public sector
		7.3: The unions, the employers and the state
		7.4: The Kedia unions
		7.5: On the shop floor – a case history
		7.6: Differentiation
		7.7: Demand labour
		7.8: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 8: Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class
		8.1: Framing
		8.2: The character of construction labour
		8.3: The labour chauris
		8.4: Sex on site
		8.5: Sex and class
		8.6: A comparative note on recycling work
		8.7: A summary conclusion
Part 3: Life
	Chapter 9: Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood
		9.1: Framing
		9.2: From village to labour colony
		9.3: Livelihoods
		9.4: Indebtedness
		9.5: Conflict and violence in the neighbourhood
		9.6: Class differentiation in the basti
		9.7: Caste in the neighbourhood
		9.8: Caste ‘atrocities’
		9.9: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 10: Growing Up; Growing Apart
		10.1: Preamble
		10.2: The changed context of childhood
		10.3: Childhood as a ticking clock
		10.4: The work children do
		10.5: Shalini’s class
		10.6: The end of childhood
		10.7: Caste, class and childhood: A summary conclusion
	Chapter 11: Marriage and Remarriage
		11.1: Framing
		11.2: Ankalu’s errant wife
		11.3: The ‘virgin’ bride and the ‘made woman’
		11.4: Breaking the marriage bond: Some ‘quantitative gossip’
		11.5: BSP and the stability of marriage
		11.6: Conjugality and the growth of intimacy
		11.7: The burdens of women
		11.8: A summary conclusion
	Chapter12: Self-inflicted Death
		12.1: Framing
		12.2: Local discourse on suicide
		12.3: The statistical fog
		12.4: On the causes of ‘causes’
		12.5: Suicide and the law
		12.6: A summary conclusion
Part 4: Concluding
	Chapter 13: Focusing and Expanding the Lens
		13.1: Framing
		13.2: Stocktaking
		13.3: The contrast with Rourkela
		13.4: In other company towns
		13.5: Naukri and kam in other settings
References
Index