WE ARE NO DEBTORS! WE ARE CREDITORS OF A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DEBT!
A FIELD TRIP IN ORISSA
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Joan
Martinez-Alier & Leah Temper
December
06, January 07
Driving
to the Kalinga Nagar Industrial Zone to commemorate the first
anniversary of tribals killed during a protest against a TATA steel
factory, stone crushers line both sides of the newly paved highway.
Women, children and men wield the hammers under the hot sun
shattering stones into ever smaller pieces. The wage for this type of
labour is Rs.
40-60/- per day
but it is work available for those who have been pushed off the land
to make way for industry. Around 50 MOUs for steel plants in the
industrial park have been signed so far, including with industry
giants such as South Koreas's POSCO.
