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This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of ‘work’, ‘workers’ and ‘margins’. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker visible, it seeks to go beyond economistic and psychological approaches to work(ing) to understand the worker as a human being, with all the complexity, vulnerability and agency that status implies. Further, it seeks to go beyond worker victimhood to gather narratives of workers’ worlds and the possibility of alternate worlds. The contributing authors bring together diverse perspectives from fields including industrial relations, environment, displacement, collective action, livelihoods, rural development, MSMEs, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship to present a textured and multidimensional view of workers and their worlds.
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Workers and Margins Grasping Erasures and Opportunities Edited by Nimruji Jammulamadaka
Workers and Margins
Nimruji Jammulamadaka Editor
Workers and Margins Grasping Erasures and Opportunities
Editor Nimruji Jammulamadaka Organisational Behaviour Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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To Prakya Swarajyalakshmi My mother-in-law Another marginal worker like most mothers and mothers-in-law
Preface
For a few years now, some of us have been contemplating coming together and having a conversation on issues of workers, particularly those outside the formal, organized work space. We have been informed by a decolonial sensibility and the strong belief that something more and something other than mainstream management was required to start talking