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Despair: The Decline of the Kanpur Textile Mills
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Joshi, Chitra |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Since the late 1980s, the situation in Kanpur is much changed, with the cotton textile being an industry in a crisis. Most Kanpur mills have been closed, workers have been retrenched in large numbers. Some continue to be on the pay-rolls but there is no work. Salaries have been levelled to a flat minimum, pay is cut for all holidays. Workers have been forced to turn to other work: rickshaw-pulling, paan, vegetable and fruit vending, begging. The line of difference between the formal and informal sector, always thin and questionable, seems to have disappeared altogether. The decline of the factory industry has been accompanied by a mushrooming of cottage industries: the myth of a linear transition from the cottage/domestic sector to factory production, from proto-industrialisation to industrialisation, seems to have been reversed. In the pre-independence period a phase of stagnation was followed by a phase of growth and boom. But now there seems no hope of recovery. Economic experts have announced the end of cotton textile factory production in Kanpur, and the death of its working class. Book Name: Industrial Work and Life |
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| Ending Page | 339 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| Starting Page | 331 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003085706-25 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Industrial Work and Life Visual and Performing Arts Cultural Studies Phase Cotton Workers Decline Pay Textile Factory Industrialisation Mills Kanpur |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
