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The photographs vividly portray how the mill workers, once a proud and hard working lot that constituted one of the most organized industrial labour forces in the country, were thrown out to the informal sector as a result of massive retrenchment. They also highlight the lawlessness that characterized the now defunct textile industry including the non-compliance with standard labour rights, the greed and highandedness of mill owners, and emphasize the plight of workers mauled by the onset of global capitalism. Pictures of rioting and arson testify to the divisions among the ex-mill workers along caste and religious lines that added to disadvantageous employment conditions and intensified community cleavages and violence. 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