SARC Event: Unionisation in the Madras Presidency: the Independence decades
Monday 19 February, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Buttery, Wolfson College
Convener: Professor Barbara Harriss-White
Speaker: Dr Karuna Dietrich Wielenga
Come and discuss Indian labour!
DrKARUNA DIETRICH WIELENGA (British Academy Newton Fellow) will talk about her research on the origins of one of India’s most extraordinary features – its informal economy - and early attempts to organise and unionise the labour force in small enterprises.