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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Jute Press -Chandrima S Bhattacharya

The Jute Press -Chandrima S Bhattacharya

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published Published on Aug 21, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 23, 2022

-The Telegraph

After decades, Bengal’s jute mills are witnessing a steady influx of women workers, The Telegraph on the troubles woven into the trend

When an industry opens its doors to women workers, it can expose how regressive its factory floor is. The face of the jute industry in Bengal has changed over the last 50 years; now more than ever because of the large presence of women. 

Once these mills were known as “maagi kol” (meaning factories where women worked; maagi being a colloquialism and not necessarily a pejorative Bengali word for women), because of the substantial number of women employees, especially in the stitching department. Mechanisation drove the women away in the early 1960s. Now they are back, “manning” the new Chinese machines that come with huge output capacities.

“Among the 2,50,000 jute factory workers in Bengal, about 25,000 are women,” says labour activist Naba Dutta, who has worked for jute workers’ rights since the 1980s and is the founder of Nagarik Mancha, a citizens’ forum. It is difficult to arrive at a specific figure because an overwhelming number of workers are temporary employees who do not have their names on the payroll.

The women are returning now, says Dutta, as the men are opting out because of their dissatisfaction with the daily wage — about Rs 400 — a little more than the minimum wage.

The entry of women is good for any management. Generally, they are found to be better workers, more pliant, less prone to unionisation, protests, absenteeism, and to alcoholism. 

“Sometimes when I look up, I see only women around me in my shift,” says a young woman worker in a jute mill near Naihati. A shift may employ hundreds of workers. In Bengal now, about 55 jute mills remain functional, after decades of problems and closures. The mills were set up by the British in the 1880s, mostly along the banks of the Hooghly.

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The Telegraph, 21 August, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/the-jute-press-after-decades-bengals-jute-mills-are-witnessing-a-steady-influx-of-women-workers/cid/1881404


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