Barnes, Tom2021-11-092021-11-0922069119http://hdl.handle.net/1885/251682On 2 September 2016, possibly the largest strike in India’s history—involving up to 150 million workers—caused major disruption to the country’s economy. This is just the latest in a series of strikes launched by the Indian trade unions in their fight against labour law reforms promoted by the right-wing government of Narendra Modi. A significant feature of these recent struggles has been the involvement of thousands of temporary and female workers.en-AUAuthor/s retain copyrighthttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/2016-0910.22459/MIC.01.03.2016.06Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)