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Globalization and Labor in South Asian Communities

Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 9-10, 2001.

 

How have political and economic shifts in the global economy in the late

20th century been experienced by labor in South Asia and in the South Asian

the diaspora? How has organized labor responded to increasing

globalization? How do organized and informal working-class responses to

globalization reflect or draw upon earlier practices and

representations? How have older forms of political economic and cultural

globalization, such as plantation agriculture, differently affected

working-class lives and livelihoods? What forms of legal redress has

organized labor in South Asia sought, and how do union strategies reflect

the tensions between trade liberalization and workers' rights, as in the

debate over social clauses? How have labor regulatory regimes been

affected by globalization, and how might labor unions respond? This

conference on "Globalization, Labor and South Asian Communities" proposes

to explore these types of questions through discussion and dialogue among

academics and activists working with South Asian communities throughout the

world.

 

In focusing on labor practices, struggles and rights across comparative

contexts, we hope this conference provides a fresh vantage point to

approach vexing questions concerning the ways globalization is experienced

and challenged by working class South Asian communities. In addition, it

will provide a forum for the interchange of ideas between academics and

activists, two communities with overlapping goals and concerns but vastly

different strategies for achieving them. Possible panel topics include the

Feminization of Work; Law, Unions and Trade Liberalization; Social Clauses

in International Trade Agreements; Globalization and Labor, Past and

Present; Post-colonial Plantation Labor; Workplace, Community and State

Politics; Gender, Caste and Unfree Work; and Experiencing Work and

Articulating Rights.

 

We invite activists engaged in organizing working-class South Asian

communities as well as scholars from a range of disciplines, including

anthropology, history, geography, sociology, law, economics, political

science, literature and film. We are interested in participants who work

not only on South Asia but also various locations in the South Asian

diaspora. We envision this as a short but intensive workshop focused on

key questions facing working-class South Asian communities, and invite

works in progress as much as finished research projects. Proposals from

graduate students, as well as faculty, are encouraged. A limited amount of

funding will be available for transportation, food and lodging in Ann

Arbor. Please send paper proposals, including title and abstract (100-200

words) to the conference organizers at labor by Monday, September

10, 2001.

 

Conference Organizers:

 

Daniel Bass, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

 

Sharad Chari, Michigan Society of Fellows, Departments of Anthropology and

History, University of Michigan.

 

Kevin Kolben, University of Michigan Law School and Center for South Asian

Studies, University of Michigan.

 

 

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regimes been affected by globalization, and how might labor unions respond?

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experienced and challenged by working class South Asian communities. In

addition, it will provide a forum for the interchange of ideas between academics

and activists, two communities

 

with overlapping goals and concerns but vastly different strategies for

achieving them. Possible panel topics include the Feminization of Work; Law,

Unions and Trade Liberalization; Social Clauses in International Trade

Agreements; Globalization and Labo

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focused on key questions facing working-class South Asian communities, and

invite works in progress as much as finished research projects.

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Sharad Chari

Assistant Professor, Anthropology & History

Rackham Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

University of Michigan

1054 B LSA, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382

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<font size=2>Sharad Chari<br>

Assistant Professor, Anthropology  &  History<br>

Rackham Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows<br>

University of Michigan<br>

1054 B LSA,        Ann Arbor, 

MI  48109-1382<br>

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734.764.2336           

E: schari<br>

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