Sudhir KumarAIR 42 · CSE 2017 · 291 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Industrial working class comprises of manual, non-manual, skilled workers in India's industrial and urban areas.
Class is not a distinct form of stratification in India. It is mixed with many other identities like caste, religion, region etc. Therefore basis of industrial working class mobilization are many.
Body · points
Social basis
Class mobilization means uniting of a particular class for a common cause of upliftment and better working and social conditions. In a survey, it was found that, 60% of all workers in industries, got jobs due to their primordial connections like caste, region etc. Thus workers are not an integrated whole and identify them differently in different times. Thus caste may be a source of mobilization of working class.
Region based mobilization is also seen as working class mobilization is more in some parts of India due to greater integration and consciousness. Marx viewed true consciousness as liberator of proletariats.
Political mobilization
Close · a way forward
Trade unions are getting increasingly politicized. The effect of this is that the welfare of workers take a backseating in wake of political interests.
Also elections may have to do with working class mobilization as elections spur such activities.
Andre Beteille studied this dimension and found that working class is too much politicized to work as one community. With talks of more labour reforms for weakening of the privileges of labourers, future of industrial workers look gloomy.
As Marx said working class is marred by alienation and noone has interest in their mobilization in India. True economic justice requires working class mobilization.
The primordial identities need to be less emphasized as then it diverts attention from direct problems. Indian working class is most homogeneous of all classes in India. A continuous mobilization of it is required as Marxist scholars put it.