Textile Workers' Strike, Mumbai, India, 1982-1983

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)

שביתת עובדי הטקסטיל, מומבאי, הודו, 1982-1983

Name (Latin)

Textile Workers' Strike, Mumbai, India, 1982-1983

Name (Arabic)

إضراب عمال النسيج، مومباي، الهند، 1982-1983

Other forms of name

Bombay Textile Strike, Mumbai, India, 1982-1983

Great Bombay Textile Strike, Mumbai, India, 1982-1983

nne Textile Workers' Strike, Bombay, India, 1982-

Wikidata: Q5598787

Library of congress: sh 89000258

Sources of Information

Work cat.: Bakshi, R. The long haul, 1986.
Phone call to Embassy of India, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 1989.
Wersch, H. The Bombay textile strike, 1982-83, 1992.
New York Times online archive, Nov. 28, 2012:For Indian business, a force to reckon with, published Dec. 18, 1988 ([profile of Dutta Samat, union leader] In 1982, he suffered a setback when a quarter of a million textile workers defied his orders and went back to their jobs after a work stoppage of almost a year for higher wages)
Financial Times historical archive, 1888-2008 online, Nov. 28, 2012:13 Bombay textile mills nationalised, Oct. 20, 1983, p. 31 (the nationalised mills are those which the Government claims had not re-employed all the workers on their payroll and had not re-started operations. The strike began in January 1982 and has never been officially called off. Dr. Samat claims that even now the mills are not operating. Nevertheless, the Government and the mill-owners claim insist that the strike has fizzled out and normal operations have been resumed in most of the 50 mills.)
Wikipedia, Nov. 28, 2012(Great Bombay Textile Strike; called on January 18, 1982; ended without obtaining concessions for the workers)

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