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Accepted Paper:
Company, temporary and daily wage workers in a modern industrial factory in western Nepal
Michael Hoffmann
(ZIRS/University of Halle)
Paper short abstract:
This paper describes the different worlds of work among company, temporary and daily wage workers in a modern factory in western Nepal.
Paper long abstract:
This paper describes the different worlds of work among company, temporary and daily wage workers in a modern factory in western Nepal. It argues that the worlds of daily wage workers, who mostly are from a local ethnic group, is radically different from that of permanent or contract workers. The paper gives an descriptive analysis of these differences and then explores the wider political reasons of how this difference has come about. The paper is based on ongoing fieldwork in a modern factory in contemporary western Nepal.
Panel
P24
Inequality, subalternity and capitalist development in contemporary South Asia
Session 1