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    Economic inequality of the badli workers of Bangladesh: Contested entitlements and a ‘perpetually temporary’ life-world

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    Alamgir, Fahreen
    Cairns, G.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Alamgir, F. and Cairns, G. 2015. Economic inequality of the badli workers of Bangladesh: Contested entitlements and a ‘perpetually temporary’ life-world. Human Relations. 68 (7): pp. 1131-1153.
    Source Title
    Human Relations
    DOI
    10.1177/0018726714559433
    ISSN
    0018-7267
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8018
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This article discusses the experience of economic inequality of badli workers in the state-owned jute mills of the postcolonial state of Bangladesh, and how this inequality is constituted and perpetuated. Nominally appointed to fill posts during the temporary absence of permanent workers, the reality of badli workers’ employment is very different. They define themselves as ‘a different category of workers’, with limited economic entitlements. We undertake content analysis of the badli workers’ narratives to identify elements that they themselves consider constitute these economic entitlements. We consider their perceptions of discrimination and exclusion and explain how, in response to these feelings, they construct their survival strategy. From this, through the writings of Armatya Sen, we discuss the badli workers’ contextual experience and understanding of economic inequality in relation to extant theoretical understandings, seeking to contribute to the field and to empirical studies in the subaltern context.

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