From Grunwick to Gate Gourmet: South Asian Women’s Industrial Activism and the Role of Trade Unions

Anitha, Sundari; Pearson, Ruth; McDowell, Linda

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“…The working‐class movement itself can also be a barrier. It has neglected migrant workers and sometimes reproduced racist attitudes towards them, such that workers are used to break each other’s strikes (see Burawoy, 1976, p. 1,062; Anitha et al., 2018). Although there are now unions in other countries (e.g., Brazil) with anti‐racism units, implementing affirmative action, and tackling race‐based wage disparities, in India the discrimination of workers because of their caste, tribe, or religion has rarely been fought against by working‐class movements (Lerche et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Long March Of What Is To Be Donementioning

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Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India

Shah

Lerche

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

127

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This paper focuses on the processes of migrant labour exploitation which are crucial for capitalist growth and the inequalities they generate. Ethnographic research conducted in different sites across India shows how patterns of seasonal labour migration are driven by class relations marked by hierarchies of identity (caste and tribe) and the spatial geopolitics of internal colonialism (region)differences that are mobilised for accumulation. Labour migration scholarship has mainly explored sites of production. We extend recent social reproduction theory (SRT) and an older literature on labour migration and reproduction to argue that the intimate relationship between production and social reproduction is crucial to the exploitation of migrant labour and that this means we have to place centre-stage the analysis of invisible economies of care which take place across spatiotemporally divided households, both in the place of migration and in the home regions of migrants. Furthermore, we develop recent work on SRT and migration to argue that an analysis of kinship (gender over generations, not just gender) is crucial to these invisible economies of care. This analysis is important in showing the machinations of capitalist growth and for political alternatives.

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Section: The Long March Of What Is To Be Donementioning

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Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India

Shah

Lerche

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

127

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“…That the workers most affected were migrant women means awareness of this factor must underpin historical interpretations of the strike. 13 Recently, several key studies acknowledging the role of female industrial workers counter the fact that 'popular and academic accounts of the mobilisation of workers against industrial closure in Britain are dominated by…the male worker'. 14 Significantly, this aspect was recognised in a government-appointed Commission of Industrial Relations inquiry, chaired by former Labour health minister Kenneth Robinson.…”

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The Loughborough ‘Mansfield Hosiery’ Strike, 1972: Deindustrialization, Post-war Migration, and Press Interpretation

Collinson

2022

Midland History

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Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s

Gordon

2024

Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe

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From Grunwick to Gate Gourmet: South Asian Women’s Industrial Activism and the Role of Trade Unions

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India

Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India

The Loughborough ‘Mansfield Hosiery’ Strike, 1972: Deindustrialization, Post-war Migration, and Press Interpretation

Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s

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