01143pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245005000061260000900111300001300120362001100133520078000144650002800924650001100952773003400963180718b1998   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFernandes, Leela  aCulture, structure and working class politics  c1998  ap.L53-60  a26 Dec  aThis essay attempts to analyse certain forms of cultural politics as a means of demonstrating the varying layers of structural inequality that serve to constitute the working class. The author argues that criticisms of teleological unitary conceptions of the working class do not necessitate a shift from but rather a revision of the ways in which we think of structural analysis. By examining the linkages between class, gender and community in the jute mills it is possible to move away from a focus on the ways in which cultural difference forecloses class politics to an understanding of the ways in which different forms of class-based political practices may contest and reproduce the intersecting structural hierarchies which constitute the working class. - Reproduced  aLabour - India - Kerala  aLabour  aEconomic and Political Weekly