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100			_aJoseph, Rajesh _933971
245			_aDomestic workers and the challenges of collectivization: labor NGOs, neighborhoods, apartment complexes
300			_a99-109 p.
520			_aThis paper is a critical commentary on the organizational challenges for collectivization of domestic workers (DWs) who constitute a core part of India’s informal economy. Building upon field research among DWs working in a mega-city and in multiple homes, we explore three challenges—the transformation of labor NGOs to ‘unions,’ the ‘place’ of the union and the ‘place’ of the worker in organizing DWs. While the first challenge deals with the form of the collective that best enables the transformation of subjectivity and consciousness of DWs from ‘servant’ to ‘worker,’ the latter two emerge from the structure of work of DWs—the fact that they are dispersed among multiple employers, and the possibilities offered by large apartment complexes for DW unions to work in concert with the state to guarantee worker rights.
653			_aDomestic workers
653			_aLabor NGOs
653			_aInformal sector workers union
700			_aNatrajan, Balmurli _933972
700			_aLobo, Roshni _933973
773	0		_029297 _975075 _aCHAKRABARTI, BHASKAR _dINDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA CALCUTTA _o55510562 _tDECISION _x0304-0941
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