Small hands, big deeds delves into the complex and multilayered world of indian labour; a world that has its own hierarchy with organised industrial labour occupying the primary position as the vanguard class the reasons why labour has been conceptualised exclusively from the prims of organsied working class are historical as well as theoretical this exclusivity marginalises other protests and concerns, often relagating them to the footnotes of working class history while the manner in which other movements of protests are marginalised is being documented, most notably in literature defined as counter-cultural, this book deconstructs the adult logic that permeates not only the metanarratives of globalisation and corporate capitalism, but also, equally, movements that are clearly counter-cultural and anti-systematic about author : r swaminathan is a senior fellow with the observer research foundation a phd from the jawaharlal nehru university, he has over ten years of experience in journalism, academics and research a regular columnist for rediffcom, dr swaminathan has worked with several leading newspapers, including the indian express he is a winner of the south asian journalists association (saja) award and a recipient of the university grants commission (ugc) fellowship he has three books to his credit, mumbai vision 2015: agenda for urban renewal, healthcare issues in large federal countries and free power to policy implications for maharashtra contents : acknowledgements setting the stage introduction genesis and evolution of the working class changing times, changing new forms of social mobilisation india catches the working class movement spreads its not childs child labour and the discourse on child rights labouring for the four outfits bhima the strenght o Small Hands, Big Deeds: New Forms of Labour Mobilisation Product type: ABIS BOOK Brand: Samkriti