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Every month, thousands of young, poor women from eastern India are trained and brought to Bangalore to work in the city’s apparel factories. Written from within a government-funded skill and placement organisation, the chapter reveals the uncertain gain of contemporary employment in a global value chain. On the one hand, a framework of labour rights and benefits promises decent employment to youth who have known only underpaid domestic drudgery. On the other, the forces of capitalist employer and patriarchal recruiter combine to stymie the transformative potential of a regular job in the big city.
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Ruthven, O. (2016). All Aboard the Job Train: Government-funded Training and Recruitment in India’s Apparel Industry. In: Land, Labour and Livelihoods. Gender, Development and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40865-1_11
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