Immanuel Ness on the "super-exploitation" of contractual workers in India

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Channel: The Wire · 2016 · News & Politics

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Akhil Kumar interviews Immanuel Ness, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a renowned figure in the global trade union movement. His book "Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class" has India as one of the three case studies where he examines working class movements in the global south.

In this exclusive interview, he talks about his experiences while researching on Indian trade unions and working class movements across the country.

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