Kamble, Pratibha
From mill gates to mall cities: Working-class lives and everyday afterlives in Jayant Pawar’s Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthala Mor - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(41), Oct 11, 2025: p.79-85
Jayant Pawar’s Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthala Mor depicts Mumbai’s textile decline and the 1982 mill strike’s generational impact on working-class families. Pawar’s story reflects dualism, contrasting integrity and resistance with selfishness and conformity, showing the erosion of solidarity and the psychological toll of industrial decline. Pawar’s tale contrasts Pandhari’s commitment, Giri’s downfall, Ghanshyam’s consumerist humiliation, and Vithabai’s rebellion, showing generational decline in resistance. The story reveals class suffering and union collapse and critiques state–corporate roles; however, it gives less attention to caste, migration, and rural distress.- Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/millworkers-strike-1982-83-and-its-aftermath/mill-gates-mall-cities.html
From mill gates to mall cities: Working-class lives and everyday afterlives in Jayant Pawar’s Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthala Mor - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(41), Oct 11, 2025: p.79-85
Jayant Pawar’s Phoenixchya Rakhetun Uthala Mor depicts Mumbai’s textile decline and the 1982 mill strike’s generational impact on working-class families. Pawar’s story reflects dualism, contrasting integrity and resistance with selfishness and conformity, showing the erosion of solidarity and the psychological toll of industrial decline. Pawar’s tale contrasts Pandhari’s commitment, Giri’s downfall, Ghanshyam’s consumerist humiliation, and Vithabai’s rebellion, showing generational decline in resistance. The story reveals class suffering and union collapse and critiques state–corporate roles; however, it gives less attention to caste, migration, and rural distress.- Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/millworkers-strike-1982-83-and-its-aftermath/mill-gates-mall-cities.html