[Reader-list] Proletarian Photo Story from Kapas Hera: A New Working Class Dormitory Shanty-Town in Gurgaon, India

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Proletarian Photo Story from Kapas Hera: A New Working Class Dormitory  
Shanty-Town in Gurgaon, India

GurgaonWorkersNews - June 2010

Kapas Hera is one of the biggest new 'working class dwelling clusters'  
in the Delhi industrial belt. Within the last ten years rent-based  
mass-accomodations for around 200,000 to 300,000 workers and families  
emerged out of dusty scrub-land around a minor peasant village. Kapas  
Hera is where over 100,000 garment export workers eat and sleep or  
conspire after 12 to 16-hours shifts in neighbouring Udyog Vihar Phase  
I to IV - one of Delhi's biggest 'planned' industrial areas. If nearby  
Udyog Vihar and Maruti Suzuki factory are the locations of productive  
power, Kapas Hera is the reproductive mass incubator of proletarian  
tension, desire and collective survival. Thousands of workers form a  
daily mass demonstration of sleepy bodies, of multiplied insomnia, of  
dreams against the day, marching towards the machines. At some point  
in time Kapas Hera - its thousands of backyards and rooms and roofs -  
might become a social borderline in struggle; a borderline
between the certainties of a forlorn present and the collective desire  
to go beyond rural return or urban arrival, beyond push and pull.

We put together some stories and photos, please have a look at:
http://gurgaonworkersnews.wordpress.com/gurgaonworkersnews-no-927/

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