Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry
Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry
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索要和给予巴基：新束缚，或者说泰米尔纳德邦动力织布机行业中束缚与抵抗的相互作用
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10.1177/006996679903300116
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发表时间：
1999
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0.6
通讯作者：
G. Neve
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作者：
G. Neve
本文探讨了印度南部城镇Kumarapalayam（泰米尔纳德邦塞勒姆区）动力织机行业的劳资关系，探讨了这种“索取和给予baki”的做法的动态，雇主对劳动者的预付款，现在已经成为这个资本主义，工业和城市环境中的一种普遍习俗。这种做法的采用与以下因素有关：雇主-雇主寻求稳定、熟练和有纪律的劳动力，非传统的编织种姓（Vellsgounder）进入这一行业，以及基于种姓、性别和技能而排斥某些群体。然而，预付款对劳资关系和劳动力流动的影响揭示了这种做法的问题性质。尽管雇主无疑试图通过债务在这个小规模的动力织机行业中重新引入一种劳动依附形式，但这一战略的有效性是非常矛盾的，因为劳动者不断通过转移到其他雇主、工厂甚至城镇来逃避束缚。有人建议，施加债券和逃避关系的动力学和辩证法的研究，可以进一步了解劳动奴役和它的奴役在城市，工业背景下形成。
This paper on labour relations in the power-loom industry of the south Indian town Kumarapalayam (Salem district, Tamilnadu) explores the dynamics of this practice of 'ask ing for and giving baki', employers' advances to their labourers, which has now become a widespread custom within this capitalist, industrial and urban setting. The introduction of this practice is related to the manufacturer-employers' search for a stable, skilled and disciplined workforce, the entry of a non-traditional weaving caste (Vellalar Gounder) into this industry, and the exclusion of particular groups on the basis of caste, gender and skill. The effects of giving advances on labour relations and labour turnover, however, reveal the problematic nature of this practice. Although employers have undoubtedly attempted to reintroduce through debt a form of labour attachment within this small-scale power-loom industry, the effectiveness of this strategy is highly paradoxical as labourers continuously escape bonds by moving to other employers, factories and even towns. It is suggested that a study of the dynamics and dialectics of imposing bonds and escaping ties may further our understanding of how labour bondage and its contestation take shape in an urban, industrial context.