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However, while they were able to organize them, it did not result in successful, sustained labour agitation in most parts of the city. The tech workers like Palash reflexively recognized their limitations:\n\n“The workers lose interest due to the lack of results from the movement. The lack of results is because the protests are localised. These big firms [DLPs] don’t actually care if 500 workers from a certain area stop working. Their scale is so large, and for the movement to succeed, mobilisation has to be on that scale. Sporadic movements here and there are not going to help the cause.”\n\nWhile the lack of results from agitations in the initial stages partially explains the limited political success of gig workers’ struggles, it is crucial to recognize that the immediate livelihood challenges faced by migrant Bengali workers in the city are not solely in contradiction with the DLPs. They are also shaped by a multiplicity of actors—from intermediaries to the state—and by the struggle to navigate issues of illegality in citizenship, as well as the challenge of surviving within the ebb and flow of city life itself. The lower-class migrant working population is a fluid community that moves between cities, adding layers of complexity to the challenges of unionising these workers. Nonetheless, the spatial fixity and spatial organization of the bastis endure, preserving collective memories of past and present struggles. These anchored spaces offer entry points for organising, as they provide a sense of stability and solidarity amid the transitory nature of migration.\n\n9 Discussion and Conclusion\n\nTransversal Unionism: How Identity Intertwined with Class Position Creates a Rubric ofResistance\n\nAs our study indicates, responding to multiple axes of marginality— shaped by lower-class migrant workers’ spatial anchorage in unauthorized settlements, the politics of suspicion fuelled by anti-Muslim phobia and illegality of their citizenship, and the vulnerability and exploitation faced as labour—the social context of Bengali sub-national consciousness played a formative role in the mobilization of migrant social classes inhabiting the urban peripheries of Bengaluru. Notably, workers primarily inhabiting contradictory class locations, such as tech workers—many of them privilaged-caste Bengali Hindus—found converging points with lowerclass Bengali migrant workers in support of their livelihood causes. This led to a scenario what we identify as “transversal unionism,” where polyphonic practices of collective action and organising, mediated through Bengali sub-national consciousness and unfolding through the spatial anchorage of migrant labour bastis, paved the way for inter-class solidarity manifested through three distinct but fraternal unions: the AIITEU, the IMFK, and the AIGWU. While these unions are sites of class mobilization, not confined solely to sub-national politics, the lower-class Bengali migrants was drawn into unionization through the overlapping mobilizations of sub-nationalism and livelihood issues, accessed through the spatial fixity lower-class migrant labour bastis. This highlights how migrant workers’ agency apart from labour also carries both spatial and temporal implications (Rogaly, 2009).\n\n252\n\nD. DHAR ET AL.","previous_page":251,"next_page":253}