Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality

by Tom Barnes

Book Overview

Auto manufacturing holds the promise of employing many young Indians in relatively well-paid, high-skill employment, but this promise is threatened by the industry's role as a site of immense conflict in recent years. This book asks: how do we explain this conflict? What are the implications of conflict for the ambitious economic development agendas of Indian governments? Based upon extensive field research in India's National Capital Region, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108433790
• ISBN13: 9781108433792
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"