Globalisation, industrial restructuring and labour standards: where India meets the global
- New Delhi Sage Publications 2005
- 320p 22 cm ; Hard Bound
Rs.650/-
Introduction : the scale -- Profit and wage distribution : institutions and organisations -- Wage-productivity and labour market flexibility : global subject and local object -- Wage distribution : skills mismatch? -- Indian corporate sector : profitability, wage bargaining, and limits--contesting grounds of cash labour standards -- Globalisation and labour standards : the agenda beyond WTO.
Providing a necessary corrective, this book analyses the current conditions of work in the Indian factory sector, and provides a critical analysis of the wage, profit and productivity behaviour over the last two decades. Examining the specificities of the conditions of industrial workers, it addresses three major questions: What has happened to the relative shares of profits and wages.