Workers and Margins Grasping Erasures and Opportunities
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, a
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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
ISBN 978-981-13-7875-1 ISBN 978-981-13-7876-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7876-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design by eStudio Calamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
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 and doing work on these workers. In March 2017, this became possible through a workshop. The discussions in the workshop have spurred this book. Most of the contributors of this volume had participated in the workshop and the spirit of the book has been a conversation, and an exploration. An exploration at developing communities of concern as well as a vocabulary that looks at such workers as human beings. Not all of the authors share the decolonial sensibility. But, that precisely is the condition of coloniality/modernity and it is in such a condition that decoloniality has to take root and recover itself. I hope this book contributes to such taking roo
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