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Author Strümpell, Christian

Title Steel Town Adivasis : Industry and Inequality in Eastern India
Published Taylor and Francis Group 2024

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Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary -- Chapter 1: Industry and Inequality in an Eastern Indian Steel Town: An Introduction -- 1.1: The Steel Town Rourkela -- 1.2: Historical Foundations and Analytical Concepts -- 1.2.1: Industry -- 1.2.2: Inequalities I: Class -- 1.2.3: Inequalities II: Ethnicity, Caste and 'Tribe' -- 1.3: Methodology and Outline -- 1.3.1: Entry into the 'Field' and Methodology -- 1.3.2: Outline of the Book -- 1.3.3: A Brief Note on the Text
Chapter 2: The Birth of RSP and the Making of Odisha -- 2.1: Introduction -- 2.2: The Foreign Collaborators and Site Selection -- 2.3: Land Acquisition and the Making of Odisha -- 2.3.1: Economy and Society in Rourkela before the coming of RSP -- 2.3.2: Local Protest against Land Acquisition -- 2.3.3: Land Acquisition and the Merger of Odisha -- 2.4: The Construction of RSP and the Making of Odisha -- 2.4.1: Work and Life on the Construction Sites -- 2.4.2: Ethnic Violence in Rourkela -- 2.4.3: The Construction of RSP and of the Odia Nation
2.5: Conclusion: States and Identifications in Eastern India -- Chapter 3: Workers, Unions and the State in Rourkela, 1959-1995 -- 3.1: Introduction: The Industrial Working Class(es) in Rourkela and India -- 3.2: RSP Workers, the Unions and Odia Nationalism -- 3.2.1: The Ethnicisation of Union Rivalries -- 3.2.2: The Odia-isation of the RMS and the RSP workforce -- 3.2.3: The Displaced People and the 'Jharkhand' Union -- 3.3: RSP Workers and Economic Liberalisation -- 3.3.1: The New Communist Union and a New Category of Workers -- 3.3.2: The Contract Worker Movement
3.3.3: The Re-emergence of the Displaced People's Movement -- 3.3.4: The New Recognised Union -- 3.4: Conclusion: Struggles about Class and Class Struggles in Rourkela -- Chapter 4: The Adivasi Worker -- 4.1: RSP Workers in the 2000s -- 4.2: Adivasi RSP Workers -- 4.2.1: Working, Drinking, and Shirking -- 4.2.2: The Uneducated, the Educated, and the Savvy -- 4.2.3: Adivasi Workers and the 'New RSP Family' -- 4.3: Adivasi Workers Beyond Regular Employment -- 4.3.1: The Casualisation of Labour: Local and Global -- 4.3.2: The Uneven Social Effects of Casualisation -- 4.3.3: Entrepreneurial Spirit
4.3.4: Wealth Spirits -- 4.4: Conclusion: 'Tribe' and Class at Work -- Chapter 5: Adivasi Town Dwellers -- 5.1: Introduction -- 5.2: The Making of the Steel Town -- 5.2.1: Vision and Master Plan -- 5.2.2: From Indian 'Salad Bowl' to Odia 'Melting Pot' -- 5.3: The Steel Town and Rourkela -- 5.3.1: Urban Development beyond the Steel Town -- 5.3.2: Bastis and Resettlement Colonies -- 5.3.3: From Adivasi to 'Labour Class' Spaces -- 5.3.4: Centring and Marginalising -- 5.4: Conclusion: 'Tribe', Class and Urban Space -- Chapter 6: Steel Town Adivasis: Class and 'Tribe' in Rourkela -- Bibliography
Summary Steel Town Adivasis: Industry and Inequality in Eastern India presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian state Odisha, and the ways this process relates to regional ethnicity and caste
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Subject Rourkela Steel Plant-Employees
Steel industry and trade-Social aspects-India-Rourkela
Indigenous peoples-Indigenous peoples-India-Rourkela
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781040034835
1040034837