This article examines the crisis that has taken place in the main industrial cities of India since the 1980s. The author stresses the multiple meanings of the spaces of labor and their relationship with the workers memory as a central feature of the Indian labor history. By taking in strong consideration the everyday life of workers in the factories and neighbourhoods as well as in the urban sites and rural areas, the author offers a broad and sophisticated overview of work and life conditions in that country, where tradition and changes combine in a dynamic and tense way.
spaces of labor; workers memory; work and community