what force is conspired to keep the workers in bangle industry , firozabad in poverty ?
The workers in the bangle industry have remained in poverty and years of mind numbing labour has destroyed their initiative and ability to dream. They cannot organize themselves into a cooperative as they are fallen in a vicious circle of middlemen who trapped their fathers and forefathers. The police beat them up if they get organized, there is no leader who can take up their cause. The author identifies the forces that conspire against them. They are the stigma of caste, a destructive cycle of the Sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians.