Skill formation and precarious labor: the historical role of the industrial training institutes in India 1950-2018

Maitra, S. and Maitra, S. (2019) Skill formation and precarious labor: the historical role of the industrial training institutes in India 1950-2018. In: Jammulamadaka, N. P. (ed.) Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore, pp. 21-43. ISBN 9789811378751 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7876-8_2)

Abstract

This paper explores the historical and ideological contestations over the meaning, nature and scope of industrial skill training in state-sponsored Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in their attempts to create a disciplined and committed labour force in India. Through a combination of conceptual insights drawn from Indian labour historiography and ethnographic participant research, the paper addresses the challenges faced by ITIs in maintaining a unified, centralized vision for industrial skill-training of workers under conditions of vastly uneven geographical development of the industrial sector and progressively intense interregional capital mobility in contemporary India.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Maitra, Professor Srabani
• Authors: Maitra, S., and Maitra, S.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education; College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9789811378751
• Published Online: 28 May 2019
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The Author(s) 2019
• First Published: First published in Workers and Margins: Grasping Erasures and Opportunities 2019
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