Fish vendors struggle for their rights!: The Coastal fish vendors of East Medinipur, West Bengal, India come together to assert their rights as fishworkers

Chatterjee, Pradip (2010) Fish vendors struggle for their rights!: The Coastal fish vendors of East Medinipur, West Bengal, India come together to assert their rights as fishworkers. Yemaya (35). pp. 10-11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

On 16th November 2010 the small town of Contai, located about 150 km west of Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, witnessed an unusual event. Hundreds of fish vendors, under the banner of (East) Medinipur District Coastal Fish Vendors’ Union, gathered in protest outside the office of the marine fisheries department. The fish vendors, having experienced years of neglect and being at the very bottom of the social hierarchy with neither rights nor benefits, have now begun to come together in struggle.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM306
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, West Bengal, Fish Vendors, Access Rights, Infrastructure, Insurance, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:52
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 06:10
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/697

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