News from India's Special Exploitation Zone - www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com

In the September 2010 issue you can find:

1) Proletarian Experiences - Daily life stories and reports from a workers' perspective

*** The isolated social work in the household - Report by a working-class woman about her work in and around the house in the industrial area: caring for husband and children, earning money by doing outsourced embroidery work. The story has been published several years ago in the Hindi workers' newspaper Faridabad Majdoor Samachar. We document it in the wider context of workers' reports, looking at the hidden side of the factory world.

GurgaonWorkersNews - Newsletter 29 (August 2010)

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Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development.

At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflect this chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels. Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon.

Thousands of young proletarianised middle class people lose time, energy and academic aspirations on night-shifts in call centres, selling loan schemes to working-class people in the US or pre-paid electricity schemes to the poor in the UK. Next door, thousands of rural-migrant workers uprooted by the agrarian crisis stitch and sew for export, competing with their angry brothers and sisters in Bangladesh or Vietnam.