Forces of truth: A struggle of migrant workers in Delhi

Under conditions of precarious work in factories of Delhi, how do workers contest terminations and dispersal? In this article, I explore a struggle of migrant workers of a metal polishing factory to retain legal work. I describe experiences of turbulence at the factory, union efforts to oppose management actions, and workers' placard protests on roads of the city. I discuss workers' motives, methods, and difficulties in the protests, interactions with other workers, managers, and the police, and empathetic linkages which arose during the struggle. The struggle's conclusion might be seen to intimate, drawing on Weil and Gandhi, the workings of 'forces of truth' in the world.