Gone with the Seam: The Women Who Built Bengaluru’s Garment Industry
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They stitch the clothes the world wears. They earn some of the lowest wages in Indian manufacturing. And on 18 April 2016, tens of thousands of Bengaluru’s women garment workers walked off the factory floor in a protest so large it shut down a city. The press called it a riot. The police answered with batons. The government quietly reversed the policy that triggered it— then came the midnight raids, the arbitrary arrests, and the slow work of making sure it never happened again. For most of the country, that was the end of the story.
