The mining industry and miners' struggles in India
Gurgaon Workers' News report on the history and current condition of India's significant mining industry, and workers struggles which have taken place within it.
Dhanbad, India – Report from a Visit in the Coal Fields
Coal Mining in India
The Dhanbad-Jharia coal-mining area
The Coal-Mining Sector during Colonialism and after ‘Independence’
In the following we have at the historical development of the mining industry and workers’ struggle in the area – from the ‘Colonial Times’ to ‘Independence’ after 1945 and nationalisation of the mining industry in 1971-3. On this background we then focus on the re-structuring process which took place since then: through ‘mafia mode of production’, mechanisation and casualisation.
