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Producing Workers
Based on a study of working-class politics in the Calcutta jute mills since the 1950s to the present, examines the ways boundaries between class, caste, gender, and community are the products of political processes that unfold through institutional, discursive, and everyday social and cultural practices.
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. This book offers a fresh and provocative look into the alternative social movements informal workers in India are launching. It also offers a unique analysis of the conditions under which these movements succeed or fail. Drawing from 300 interviews with informal workers, government officials and union leaders, Rina Agarwala argues that Indian informal workers are using their power as voters to demand welfare benefits from the state, rather than demanding traditional work benefits from employers. In addition, they are organizing at the neighborhood level, rather than the shop floor, and appealing to 'citizenship', rather than labor rights.
Labor, Globalization and the State
This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best levers for raising labour standards, provided labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring accompany them. Labour market flexibility and capital market restructuring, at a first glance, appear to be complementary and symmetric policies. In practice, however, they might have very asymmetric consequences. This book addresses these issues, and it presents a comprehensive analysis of the ...
Labour Mobility and Rural Society
Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.
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Private Investment in India, 1900-1939
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Wage-Productivity Relationship in Indian Public Sector
This is a pioneering attempt which has determined the quantitative relationship between the parameters (i) Money wage and productivity, and (ii) Real wage and Productivity, covering a wide range of data on production, employment, money wage, real wage, productivity and wage-share in Indian Public Sector. This book has determined the nature of relationship between wage and productivity in Eastern Coalfield Limited, Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Indian Steel Industry and Indian Railway Industry which are the leading public enterprises in Indian Economics. Thus, this book on Industrial Economics is considered as a pioneering research work in the area of Labour-Managerial Economics. Review ``Issues relating to wages have remained polemical. However, it is agreed that labourers deserve resonable wages which should be based on both productivity and cost of living. Wages assume importance as they serve as an incentive for the labourers. Students of Industrial Economics will find this book useful''. I. Satya Sundaram, Southern Economist, May 96, Bangalore
