Workers and Margins

Nimruji Prasad Jammulamadaka is an Associate Professor at the IIM Calcutta, India. Her previous books include Indian Business: Notions and Practices of Responsibility (2017) and Governance, Resistance and the Post-colonial State: Management and State Building (2017). A co-editor of the Springer Nature book series Managing the Post-colony, she has also served as Chair of the Critical Management Studies Division at the Academy of Management, USA.Contributors:Anjula Gurtoo is Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.Arpita Mathur is Research Assistant Professor in School of Management, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IndiaAshis Kumar Sahu has strategic and grassroots experience in sustainable energy, microfinance, and livelihoods and has led social enterprises balancing social mission with financial viability and now works as mentor, advisor, board member.Bharat Patel has been working for the protection of livelihoods of the fisherfolk and the environment along Gujarat’s coast for the last two decades. He currently works with CPR-NAMATI as senior Program Manager.G. Krishnamurthi has served in the academic, business and government sectors for over 47 years. He specialises in the areas of strategy, development and project management.Himanshi Rajora is currently a fourth year PhD student at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.Jaya Kritika Ojha is a development academic and researcher. Jaya facilitates courses like Sustainable Livelihood Systems, Development Theories and Practices, Social Mobilisation, Collective Action andCommons at various universities.Jerome Joseph is currently Chair Professor, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India.Masoom Suchdeo is a student of the Integrated Programme in Management at Indian Institute of Management Indore, India.Patturaja Selvaraj works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.Rahul Tripathi is Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Goa University, India.Rajesh Bhattacharya is Associate Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India.Ravindra Sharma, the founder of Kala Ashram, in Adilabad, Telangana was a Gandhian artisanal thinker. A believer of traditional wisdom, he had spent his lifetime in the causeof art and artisans of his region. He had uniquely distilled the socio-economic-political-spiritual essence of traditional Indian society. He passed away in April 2018.Saikat Maitra is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.Srabani Maitra is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK.Srinath Jagannathan teaches in Indian Institute of Management Indore, India.

• Chapter 1: Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Possibilities within Management Studies.- Section 1: Conceptual Aspects on Workers and Margins.- Chapter 2: Skill Formation and Precarious Labour: The Role of Industrial Training Institutes in India 1950-2018.- Chapter 3: Labor Beyond the Labor Market: Interrogating Marginality.- Chapter 4: Representation of Worker Marginalization and Quest for Livelihood Justice.- Chapter 5: Death of the Artisan: An Indigenous View on Marginalisation.- Section 2: Being Marginal.- Chapter 6: The Literary Worlds of Workers: Narratives of Art from the Margins.- Chapter 7: The Cosmos of Public Sector Township: Democracy as an Intellectual Culture.- Chapter 8: Marginality and its Contestations: A Case of Mining Affected in Goa.- Chapter 9: The Anti-power of the Marginalised: A postcolonial Perspective.- Chapter 10: Occupational Prestige and Informal Work:Women Domestic Workers in India.- Section 3: Surviving Marginalisation.- Chapter 11: Putting the Marginalised out of the Margins: Role of Mobilisation, Collectivisation and Livelihood Interventions.- Chapter 12: Getting Marginalised and Surviving.- Chapter 13: Leather Artisans-Workers and Global Value Chains: Protecting Autonomy, Enacting Dissent.- Chapter 14: CSO, Livelihoods and Margins.