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In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and
Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized
labor in democratization and development. The study provides a
unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics.
It begins in the early twentieth century, when permanent unions
first formed in the South Asian Subcontinent. Additionally, it
offers an analysis of changes in conditions of work and terms of
service in India and Pakistan and of organized labor's response.
The conclusions shed new light on the influence of organized labor
in national politics, economic policy, economic welfare and at the
workplace. It is demonstrated that the protection of workers has
desirable outcomes not only for those workers covered but also for
democratic practice and for economic development.
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and
political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region
contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous
centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes.
This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic
forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across
sectors and regions, altered people's relations to production, and
produced new state-citizen relations. Does market triumphalism or
increased salience of identity politics render class irrelevant?
Has rapid growth in aggregate wealth obviated long-standing
questions of inequality and poverty? Explanations for what happened
to class vary, from intellectual fads to global transformations of
interests. The authors ask what is lost in the move away from
class, and what South Asian experiences tell us about the limits of
class analysis. Empirical chapters examine formal and
informal-sector labor, social movements against genetic
engineering, and politics of the "new middle class." A unifying
analytical concern is specifying conditions under which interests
of those disadvantaged by class systems are immobilized, diffused,
co-opted or autonomously recognized and acted upon politically: the
problematic transition of classes in themselves to classes for
themselves.
In this first comparative study of organized labour in India and
Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized
labour in the political and economic development of these two
countries. Beginning with the early twentieth century, when
permanent unions first formed in the South Asian sub-continent, it
provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani
labour politics. Additionally, it offers an analysis of changes in
conditions of work and terms of service in India and Pakistan and
of organized labours' response. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also
discussed for further comparative clarification throughout the
text. The conclusions shed new light on the impact of organized
labour in the field of national politics, economic policy, economic
welfare and the situation at the workplace-level. It is
demonstrated that the protection of workers has desirable outcomes
not only for those workers covered but also for democratic practice
and for economic development.
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age analyses and compares changing patterns of labour relations in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on the distinctive responses to common economic pressures associated with globalization as late-developing economies engage in economic liberalization and post-socialist economies cope with the dismantling of command economies.
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