ABSTRACT
This chapter studied workers’ socio-demographic stratification and re-organisation of work as a cause to understand low and high shades of precarity in the two categories of workers – locals and migrants. Local workers belong to the normal working class debate, whereas migrants are part of the precariat working class debate. The chapter showed the ways in which local workers enjoyed low instances of precarity by unleashing the potential of trade unions. Consequently, upgrading in textile and garment factories resulted in the re-organisation of work, dismantling labour market institutions and used workers’ socio-demographic features to produce varying shades of precarity. The foremost impact is denying the access to social security and producing varying shades of labour control and migration processes. Thus homogenising precarity across the working class and blurring the distinction (working class and precariat class) in the long run. This is studied using a sample of 600 workers from various factories of varying sizes from Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu.
