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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 104–107.
Published: 01 August 1992
... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bufferin,Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Document: Meeting of Worker Leaders from Common Multinational Corporation in South Asia Held in New Delhi, March 26-28th, 1992. A meeting of South Asian plant worker leaders...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 339–341.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Ananya Jahanara Kabir Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Laura Bear New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 xii + 346 pp., $49.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (1): 61–71.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Anne, Dr.; Dilip Copyright 1984: Regents of University of California 1984 CONTRACT LABOR AND THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS Dr. Anne and Dilip Unorganized labor pervades all industries and services...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 206–219.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... It argues that the labor movement in the factory reached its peak in 1911 when some 2,000 workers launched what would be one of the longest strikes in late Ottoman history. This long strike was ultimately defeated and the labor movement in the factory quickly lost momentum. A close examination of the strike...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 33–43.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Countries - The Economic and Human Consequences (ed. Dennis, Shoesmith), Hong Kong. Banerjee , N. , n.d., “ The role of women workers in Export Oriented Industries (India) .” Center Bank Annual Report , 1988 , Central Bank, Sri Lanka. Chapkis , Wendy , and Cynthia Enloe, 1983...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 61–62.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1, 1990 Document: Centre for Society and Religion (January-February 1988) Sri Lankan Workers in the Middle East I paid Rs. 12,375 to a man in Dehiwala who and wages not keeping...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (2): 69–72.
Published: 01 August 1990
... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2 (1990). (Reprinted from News From Irene, Issue No. 14, May 1991). TEXTILE AND GARMENT INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH Reports From Women Workers’ Struggles In June 1989, IRENE (International...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 36–46.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Ahmad Alawad Sikainga © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Labor Activism and Solidarity among the Railway Workers of Atbara (Sudan) 1924-1948 Ahmad Alawad Sikainga This article examines the early attempts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 64–71.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Pieter C. van Duin © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 “Workers of All Colours Unite South African Communism, the White Working Class, and the Ideology of Proletarian Non-Racialism, 191 7-1943...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2. Workers saluting the flags of South Korea and Samwhan Corporation, Jeddah. Samwhan samshibonyŏnsa [Thirty-five-year history of Samwhan] (Seoul: samwhan kiŏp chushik'oesa, 1979), 915. More
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 533–546.
Published: 01 December 2010
... discourses on sex work and trafficking. Many people use the language of trafficking, problematic in its implications that women (especially from the developing world) could only be “duped” into sex work in another country, and this language serves to silence the already silenced migrant sex workers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 524–539.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that observes a national literacy campaign among shipyard workers, Mouftah demonstrates how a particular strand of Islamic reformism makes modern education an indicator of morality, ultimately constraining the revolutionary potential of the literacy movement. Literacy activism offers a crucial lens to observe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as the limitation of the majority of workers. Workers, for their part, while largely eschewing a language of skill, nonetheless valorize a variety of forms of embodied knowledge and ability, including those involved in exiting the strenuous work of building to become a contractor of construction labor. Copyright...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Rebecca Gruskin Abstract In the 1920s and 1930s, the French colonial phosphate mining company in Gafsa, Tunisia, used X-ray images to decide which of its workers’ injuries were fake and which were real. Through an analysis of X-ray photography in Gafsa, this article argues that a capacious history...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of workers' rights and housing movements but must also take into consideration the political economy of land and housing created by new forms of real estate speculation. This article situates the history of urban speculation and the new fiduciary innovations pertaining to urban land and housing markets...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 221–236.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of Europe to be laid in ancestral soils in countries of origin. Through interviews with Muslim death-care workers and community members the authors analyze the significance and symbolic value that such posthumous journeys carry in postmigratory settings. They argue that the Muslim corpse embodies a range...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 532–537.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jesse Weaver Shipley Abstract Between 1979 and 1983 soldiers, workers, and students in Ghana launched a revolution to destroy the neo-imperial order. In the Ghanaian historical imagination that era is not remembered for its radical populism but as a time of violent chaos before the nation-state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 184–199.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the home. This development is not taking place without resistance. The struggle to increase employment opportunities for women is noisy and contentious. Complex class politics are interacting with a rentier political culture that supports the extensive use of expatriate workers. Nevertheless, the evidence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 December 2009
... a Libanist or Arabist national identity of some sort. Studies on Lebanon have rarely attended to the voices from below, or class and provincial engagements with colonialism. My article focuses on Shiite peasants and rural workers in the south struggling against a wide range of dislocations and civil...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 454–469.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to the metropole? How does it change when it is brought to bear on the migrant question? First posed by the Palestine committees forged by migrant workers, foreign students, and Maoist militants in the wake of the September 1970 massacre of Palestinians in Jordan, these questions have shaped discourses around...
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