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February 7, 2006

09:00-09:15 Tea Opening
09:15-09:30 Introduction to the workshop on Labour in South Asia
Session 1 Neo-Bondage, Caste and Class Identities
Chairman : Geert De Neve
09:30-10:00 The history of labour bondage in India reconsidered
Jan Breman
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30:10:50 From Transcending Survival to Comprehending Structures ; Politics of Vulnerable Labour in New Industrial Economy
Vijay Gudavarthy
10:50-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11h30 Tea-Break
11:30-11:50 Identity of the Political Agent
Swagato Sarkar
11:50-12:15 Discussion
12:15-12:35 Caste and Class Identity : Negotiation at workplace of Headload workers in Arni, Tamil Nadu
M.V.Srinivasan
12:35-13:00 Synthesis
Geert De Neve
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Session 2 Neo-Liberalisation and Transformation in South India
Chairman : Karin Kapadia
14:30-14:50 Loss of Trust and Loyalty ? Middlemen in Andhra Pradesh
Picherit David
14:50-15:15 Discussion
15:15-15:35 Economic Liberalisation, Class Restructuring and Social Space in Provincial South India
Geert De Neve
15:35-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:15 Tea Break
16:15-16:35 Political Mobilisation among SCs in Coimbatore Villages
Judith Heyer
16:35-17:00 Discussion
17:00-17:20 Social workers and “beneficiaries” : power and status relations
Célina Jauzelon
17:20-17:45 Discussion
17:45-18:00 Synthesis
Karin Kapadia

February 8, 2006

Session 3 Skills and Cultures
Chairman : Surinder S.Jodhka
09:00-09:20 Cultures of Artisans, low-caste dimensions and labour consciousness : case of Kevat
Djallal Heuzé
09:20-09:45 Discussion
09:45-10:05 Skills and Silks : learning to work among hand-loom weavers
Camilla Roman
10:05-10:30 Discussion
10:30-10:45 Tea-Break
Session 4 Indebtedness, over-indebtedness and debt bondage
Chairman : Surinder S.Jodhka
10:45-11:05 In the Grips of the Scissor : No Jobs, Falling Prices, Rising Costs, Growing Indebtedness in Rural India
Smita Gupta
11:05-11:30 Discussion
11:30-11:50 « Win-win » or « win-loss » ? The "comparative advantage" and the ambiguity of the advance system. Some insights from the brick kiln and rice mills sectors in Tamil Nadu
Isabelle Guérin, Marc Roesch
11:50-12:15 Discussion
12:15-12:30 Synthesis
Surinder S. Jodhka
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session 5 Debt Bondage – Regional and sector-based approaches
Chairman : M.A.Kalam
14:00-14:20 Forced/ Bonded Labour in a capitalist economy : A Case study of Punjab
Manjit Singh
14:20-14:45 Discussion
14:45-15:05 Rural Labour, Bondage and Migration in Bihar : Some Insights from a Longitudinal Survey
Alakh Sharma
15:05-15:30 Discussion
15:30-15:45 Tea-Break
15:45-16:05 Ethnicity, Isolation and the Labour Market : The Case of Tea Plantation Labour in Assam and West Bengal
Sharit Bhowmik
16:05-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:50 Migrant labour and debt bondage : the case of seasonal migrants from Tamil Nadu
Kamala Marius-Gnanou / Venkatasubramaniam
16:50-17:15 Discussion
17:15-17:35 Social Relations of Production in Brick Kiln Sector
Aseem Prakash
17:35-18:00 Discussion

February 9, 2006

Session 6 From Global perspective to Country specific
Chairmen : Jan Breman and Julian Parr
08:30-08:50 Bonded Labour in the Global Context and new forms of bondage
Roger Plant
08:50-09:10 Prevalence of over indebtedness in Bangladesh (Agriculture, weaving, sex and tea sectors)
Nazneen Haq
09:10-09:30 Debt bondage in Pakistan, an overview
Haris Gazdar
09:30-10:30 Discussion
10:30-10:45 Tea-Break
10:45-11:05 Diversity of Bonded Labour in India : The Changing Forms and Extent
D. Narasimha Reddy
11:05-11:30 Discussion
11:30-11:45 Synthesis
Jan Breman
11:45-12:30 Round Table part 1. Debt bondage : prevention and action
Facilitator : Julian Parr
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15h30 Round Table part 2. Debt bondage : prevention and action
Facilitator : Julian Parr
15:30-16:00 Tea break and departure of ILO participants
16:00-17:00 Concluding session

Dernier ajout : 19 février 2006.