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The forgotten struggle: How India’s mill workers earned the right to a weekly off
Published 1 year, 9 months ago
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The recent remarks by Larsen & Toubro chairman S.N.Subrahmanyan, suggesting employees should work 90 hours a week without taking Sundays off, have sparked outrage across the country. But what many people may not realise is that the concept of a weekly off in India was not handed down easily — it was earned after a long and relentless struggle by workers in the country’s first industrial town.
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(Narrated by Radheshyam Jadhav; Podcast Producer: Siddharth Mathew Cherian