Contextualizing the Emerging Issues and Dilemmas of Displaced Ecosystem People: A Case of Coal Mining Industry at Talcher, Odisha (India)

Garada, Rabindra

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“…Eight open-cast mines and one underground mine are presently operating in Talcher, and two more open-cast mines are in the planning stage (MCL, 2018). 16 Talcher is one of India's fastest growing industrial centres (Garada, 2013a(Garada, , 2013b. In 2011, Talcher had a total population of 97,968, of which 53 per cent were male, and 47 per cent were female (Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, 2011).…”

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Migrant Workers in the Coal Mines of India: Precarity, Resilience and the Pandemic

Nayak

2022

Social Change

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This article analyses the lived experiences of migrant workers in India under different regimes of coal mining and engages with their contemporary precarious labouring conditions and resilience. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in the Talcher coalfields of Odisha, I argue that the labouring lives of migrant workers from marginalised communities have been invisiblised in a ‘shadow economy’ of coal extraction through subcontracting and labour recruitment by local contractors working with state-owned coal companies. The process of invisiblisation has taken place at three levels: first, at the workplace which includes recruitment patterns, contracting systems and precarious labouring conditions inflicted by the employer; second, through the exclusion of migrant workers in the land and labour politics of local dispossessed communities for coal mining jobs; and finally, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdowns, observed as ‘invisible’ essential workers under the Essential Services Maintenance Act of 1981.

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Migrant Workers in the Coal Mines of India: Precarity, Resilience and the Pandemic

Nayak

2022

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Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India

Nayak

2022

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Contextualizing the Emerging Issues and Dilemmas of Displaced Ecosystem People: A Case of Coal Mining Industry at Talcher, Odisha (India)

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Migrant Workers in the Coal Mines of India: Precarity, Resilience and the Pandemic

Migrant Workers in the Coal Mines of India: Precarity, Resilience and the Pandemic

Coal extraction, dispossession and the ‘classes of labour’ in coalfields of eastern India

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