Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour

by Mark Holmström

Book Overview

This study focuses on the uneasy relationship between permanent 'organised sector' and temporary 'unorganised sector' workers in India. Does India indeed have a dual economy and society in which these two groups of workers, only one side enjoying the protection of the Factory Acts and Trades Unions, regard themselves and act as distinct classes with opposed interests? Drawing upon his own extensive fieldwork amongst Indian workers, employers and unionists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521318483
• ISBN13: 9780521318488
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"