Slavery Archives - Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/category/slavery/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:26:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 113682794 बीडी कामगारांच्या जगाचे भयाण वास्तव https://vivekvsp.com/2025/05/beedi-workers-2/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/05/beedi-workers-2/#comments Mon, 05 May 2025 16:00:14 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9481 सोलापूरला जायचं उद्देश बीडी उद्योग व कामगारांच्या प्रश्नाचे वास्तव समजून घ्यायचा होता. नागेशला भेटायचे ठरले. नागेश आमच्यासोबत सर्वत्र होता आणि आमच्या संवादांवर बारकाईने लक्ष ठेवून...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/05/beedi-workers-2/feed/ 2 9481 Solapur – In the World of Beedi Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:50:54 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9415 The first part of this series was published earlier titled ‘Solapur – Exploiting The Beedi Workers’ and this is the second part. Nagesh was accompanying...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/feed/ 6 9415 Solapur – Exploiting The Beedi Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/solapur-beedi/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/solapur-beedi/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:54:10 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9397 “Solapur is not Switzerland,” my wife said when I declared my intention to camp for three days there, “It will be very hot there.” But...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/solapur-beedi/feed/ 6 9397 Three Inspiring Stories of Women Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/women-workers/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/women-workers/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:51:54 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9368 We need to talk about the Girl-Boss-It-Girl-ification of International Women’s Day. Does it make your skin crawl too to see a day of feminist power...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/women-workers/feed/ 2 9368 Contract Workers Battle for Their Rights https://vivekvsp.com/2024/08/contract-workers-battle-for-their-rights/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/08/contract-workers-battle-for-their-rights/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:49:10 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8753 Deadly Delays in the Delivering Justice I have written about the travails of the housekeeping contract workers of BPCL. You can read it here. The...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/08/contract-workers-battle-for-their-rights/feed/ 5 8753 Subcontracting Governance in Labour Matters https://vivekvsp.com/2022/01/labour/ https://vivekvsp.com/2022/01/labour/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:25:17 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=7213 Political leaders see ‘foreign hand’ in every adverse situation. A recent story in The WEEK Magazine reports ‘foreign hand’, Chinese to be precise, in the...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2022/01/labour/feed/ 5 7213 Going Beyond CSR: Corporate India and Modern Day Slavery https://vivekvsp.com/2021/12/csr-modern-day-slavery/ https://vivekvsp.com/2021/12/csr-modern-day-slavery/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:30:54 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=7156 This article argues that it is high time Corporate India takes human rights violations in their supply chains very seriously. This is in the light...

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