Proletarian Photo Story from Kapas Hera: A New Working Class Dormitory Shanty-Town in Gurgaon, India
GurgaonWorkersNews - June 2010 Kapas Hera is one of the biggest new 'working class dwelling clusters' in the Delhi industrial belt. Within the last ten years rent-based mass-accomodations for around 200,000 to 300,000 workers and families emerged out of dusty scrub-land around a minor peasant village. Kapas Hera is where over 100,000 garment export workers eat and sleep or conspire after 12 to 16-hours shifts in neighbouring Udyog Vihar Phase I to IV - one of Delhi's biggest 'planned' industrial areas. If nearby Udyog Vihar and Maruti Suzuki factory are the locations of productive power, Kapas Hera is the reproductive mass incubator of proletarian tension, desire and collective survival. Thousands of workers form a daily mass demonstration of sleepy bodies, of multiplied insomnia, of dreams against the day, marching towards the machines. At some point in time Kapas Hera - its thousands of backyards and rooms and roofs - might become a social borderline in struggle; a borderline between the certainties of a forlorn present and the collective desire to go beyond rural return or urban arrival, beyond push and pull. We put together some stories and photos, please have a look at: http://gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com/gurgaonworkersnews-no-927/ News from India's Special Exploitation Zone - www.gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
