Striking lives

Multiple narratives of South Asian women’s employment, identity and protest in the UK

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6255490
AutoresSundari Anitha (0000-0002-6918-3680, University of Lincoln), Ruth Pearson (0000-0002-5741-5050, University of Leeds), L Mcdowell (0000-0001-7888-0886, University of Oxford)
Ano2012
Volume12
Fascículo6
Páginas754-775
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796811435316
OpenAlexW2038265477
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas43

This article draws on the narratives of the two groups of South Asian women (SAW) in the UK who took part in industrial disputes some 30 years apart, in order to examine the ways in which they have negotiated their way through their classed, racialized and gendered inclusion in the labour market. The comparison of the Grunwick and the Gate Gourmet disputes and the employment histories of the actors involved in these disputes enables us to explore the centrality of waged work to the social construction of a diasporic identity and the complexity of SAW’s identities in the UK. This article utilizes an intersectional framework, based on life history interviews, to reinterpret historical events by examining women’s experiences of industrial action in the context of their class backgrounds and changing class positions, and particular histories of migration and settlement

Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Inclusion (mineral · Intersectionality · Narrative · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy