Indian and Chinese Labour. Includes a special issue of Seminar on labour, press clippings on labour laws and reforms, a People’s Union for Democratic Rights booklet on miners of Santhal parganas, 2 issues of Labour file, an issue of Time Magazine on China’s Labour pain and labour unrest in China
Papers related to Kamani Employees’ Union. Includes a note on Workers’ Library and Education Centre. Also, includes a set of documents shared by Rosa Basanti with Praful Bidwai
Drafts of research papers/ essays on history of labour strikes in modern India. Includes writings by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, P.P. Mohapatra, Vijay Prashad, Anil Rajimwale, Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, Chitra Joshi, & others on themes such as Tisco strike of 1958 and question of representation, Railway strike of 1949, Life-Stories of unprotected workers in Postcolonial Calcutta, workers and Bombay textile strike,1982-83, Telegraph Workers strike of 1908, etc.
Material related to Workers’ Struggles and demands. Includes letter from The Federation of Hindustan Lever Limited and its allied Employees’ Unions to Yashwant Sinha regarding Tax incentives and subsidies, a pamphlet titled ‘Lock-Out at Maruti’ by Workers’ Solidarity, another pamphlet by Workers’ Solidarity and People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) on ‘Shifting Sites: Workers resistance at Honda Power Products, Rudrapur’, etc.
a) New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI). Includes booklets of NTUI, a copy of its bulletin Union Power, a Handbook on Rural Workers’ Rights under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, etc.
b) Social Audit of the Judiciary on Labour Rights at India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi on 16-17 February 2008
