Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
Part 1: Context
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent
1.1: Preamble
1.2: A 'tragedy of development'?
1.3: An instantiation of the dream?
1.4: A short guide to the text
Chapter 2: Classes of Labour
2.1: The temptations of teleology
2.2: On the concept of class
2.3: Citadel or mountain?
2.4: Naukri and kam
2.5: Jobs as property
2.6: A summary conclusion
Chapter 3: Building Bhilai
3.1: An Industrial 'monoculture'
3.2: Pioneer stories and the development of class differentiation
3.3: The space of the town
3.4: Peripheral bastis
3.5: Of settlers and sojourners
3.6: A summary conclusion
Chapter 4: The Price of Modernity
4.1: Preamble
4.2: Displacement
4.3: Churning
4.4: In the happy world of the fields
4.5: Sacrifice
4.6: A summary conclusion
Part 2: Work
Chapter 5: A Post in the Plant
5.1: Framing
5.2: Recruitment and the reproduction of the workforce
5.3: Reservations
5.4: Compassionate appointments
5.5: 'Source' and 'note'
5.6: Promotions
5.7: The size of the purse
5.8: Moonlighting
5.9: The status situation of BSP workers
5.10: A summary conclusion
Chapter 6: The Work Situation of BSP Labour
6.1: Preamble
6.2: On the shop floor in the 1990s
6.3: Changes on the shop floor (2006)
6.4: Contract labour in the Plant
6.5: The working world of contract labour
6.6: Union politics in the Plant
6.7: The unions in the mines
6.8: A summary conclusion
Chapter 7: Private Sector Industry
7.1: Framing
7.2: Private industry and the public sector
7.3: The unions, the employers and the state
7.4: The Kedia unions
7.5: On the shop floor
a case history
7.6: Differentiation
7.7: Demand labour
7.8: A summary conclusion
Chapter 8: Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class
8.1: Framing
8.2: The character of construction labour
8.3: The labour chauris
8.4: Sex on site
8.5: Sex and class
8.6: A comparative note on recycling work
8.7: A summary conclusion
Part 3: Life
Chapter 9: Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood
9.1: Framing
9.2: From village to labour colony
9.3: Livelihoods
9.4: Indebtedness
9.5: Conflict and violence in the neighbourhood
9.6: Class differentiation in the basti
9.7: Caste in the neighbourhood
9.8: Caste 'atrocities'
9.9: A summary conclusion
Chapter 10: Growing Up
Growing Apart
10.1: Preamble
10.2: The changed context of childhood
10.3: Childhood as a ticking clock
10.4: The work children do
10.5: Shalini's class
10.6: The end of childhood
10.7: Caste, class and childhood: A summary conclusion
Chapter 11: Marriage and Remarriage
11.1: Framing