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The role of trade unions in helping women beedi workers to obtain statutory benefits has been analysed in this paper with the help of data collected from 28 trade unions and 876 beedi workers from four Karnataka districts. It is shown that in the context of growing unorganised component within the beedi industry and limited membership base, trade unions find it difficult to organise women workers to access statutory benefits although they have fairly good understanding of the situation and needs of the workers. An important finding is that production relations emerging within the industry explain whether a worker is able to access the benefits or not. It is argued that when workers are being increasingly unorganised, the role of trade unions in ensuring that there is collective bargaining of the workers will become either marginal or non-existent as trade unions find it difficult to change the strategies in view of changing conditions.
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