Limits of Bargaining - Capital, Labour and the State in Contemporary India

Informationen zum Autor Achin Chakraborty is Professor and Director at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. He has co-authored, with Anthony D'Costa, The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (2017). His research interests are development economics, poverty, inequality and human development. Subhanil Chowdhury is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. His primary research interests are labour economics and trade and development. Supurna Banerjee is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. Her research interests are labour, migration, social space and activism. Zaad Mahmood is Assistant Professor at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research interests are globalisation, public policy, labour and politics in India. Zusammenfassung Analyses the dynamics of the capital-labour bargaining process in the context of the changing nature of the state and market as a result of the adoption of policies of liberalisation and globalisation in India. The analytical point of departure is the nature of collective bargaining in the organised sector of West Bengal since economic liberalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1. Contextualising trade unions and collective bargaining; 2. Collective bargaining in India: an overview; 3. Everyday processes of collective bargaining in West Bengal; 4. Industrial stagnation due to 'labour militancy'? A critical look at the macro evidence; 5. Trade unions and working-class politics in contemporary West Bengal; 6. The state and collective bargaining; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.

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• Authors: Supurna Banerjee, Banerjee Supurna, Achin Chakraborty, Achin Chowdhury Chakraborty, Chakraborty Achin, Subhanil Chowdhury, Zaad Mahmood, Zaad (Presidency University Mahmood
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108492249
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49224-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, 21st Century, India, macroeconomics, Labour / income economics, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Labour Economics, economic growth