Jyoti Sinha – författare

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, damage assessment and maintenance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS (International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures), IncoME  (International Conference on Maintenance Engineering) and TEPEN (The Efficiency and Performance Engineering), held in Jaipur, India on November 26-28, 2024. Topics include sensors and measurement systems, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, machine health monitoring, maintenance organisation & performance measurement, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cyber physical systems, machine learning in maintenance and production environment, plant maintenance, asset management, reliability, artificial intelligence and related areas, life cycle cost optimisation, health management. The contributions, which were selected through a rigorous internationalpeer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, damage assessment and maintenance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS (International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures), IncoME  (International Conference on Maintenance Engineering) and TEPEN (The Efficiency and Performance Engineering), held in Jaipur, India on November 26-28, 2024. Topics include sensors and measurement systems, condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, machine health monitoring, maintenance organisation & performance measurement, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cyber physical systems, machine learning in maintenance and production environment, plant maintenance, asset management, reliability, artificial intelligence and related areas, life cycle cost optimisation, health management. The contributions, which were selected through a rigorous internationalpeer-review process, share exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.

This book offers a deeply grounded ethnographic account of the women coal workers in Jharia—known locally as Kamins—whose labor sustains one of India’s most hazardous extractive frontiers. Moving beyond narratives of victimhood or romanticized resilience, the study situates their lives within the historical evolution of India’s coal economy, from colonial expansion and post-independence nationalization to contemporary regimes of subcontracting, informalization, and ecological degradation. It reveals how women’s apparent “disappearance” from formal mining work is not a simple retreat but the outcome of institutional reclassification, managerial practices, and gendered-caste hierarchies that reorganize labor, risk, and recognition in the coal industry. The Kamins’ experiences illuminate how extraction is governed through everyday bureaucratic and political mechanisms that are deeply shaped by the intersection of gender, caste, and class, structuring who is seen as a legitimate worker, whose injuries are acknowledged, and whose labor remains invisible. Foregrounding these layered exclusions, the book demonstrates that mining ecologies are not only environmental but also social and institutional terrains where toxicity, precarity, and dispossession are unevenly distributed. Rather than presenting the coalfields as an isolated site of exploitation, the book situates Jharia within broader national and global energy regimes, showing how the demand for cheap coal is sustained through institutionalized invisibility and differential exposure to harm. By centering the knowledge, strategies, and political insights of the Kamins, the study rethinks labor politics in extractive economies and offers a critical account of how survival itself becomes a mode of analysis and resistance. This book will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, sociology of labor, feminist political economy, feminist ecology, and development studies.