THE STRENGTH OF THE STREET MEETS THE STRENGTH OF THE STATE: THE 1972 LABOR STRUGGLE IN KARACHI

Kamran Asdar Ali

doi:10.1017/S0020743805050063

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Why did they kill us? We wanted our rights—bonus, wages, health benefits, why did they kill us? To be honest we all cried, I cried too. —Textile worker remembering June 1972

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