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Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi’s industrial capitalism did not happen

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In this chapter the network of connivance between the provincial bureaucracyand local industrialists is traced. It describes the symbiotic relationsbetween the criminal economies of local ‘industrial capitalism’, Karachi’sturbulent urban environment and a state torn between the strength of thelaw and the ‘justice’ of the powerful. This intreccio is explored through adetailed documentation of trials following the Baldia textile factory fire.They reveal the routinised coercive exploitation of the workforce and thesystematic bypassing of labour laws and safety regulations, non-compliancewith which had evidently become widespread in the industrial zones of theeconomic capital of Pakistan. It also shows how immunity develops andoperates, and the role of crime-friendly law in facilitating it.
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hal-04370633 , version 1 (03-01-2024)

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Laurent Gayer. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi’s industrial capitalism did not happen. Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti (Eds). The Wild East: Criminal Political Economies in South Asia, UCL Press, pp.288-321, 2019, 9781787353237. ⟨10.2307/j.ctvfrxr41.19⟩. ⟨hal-04370633⟩
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