Making cars in the new India : industry, precarity and informality / Tom Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Tom, 1978- author.

Series:

Development trajectories in global value chains.

Development trajectories in global value chains

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile industry and trade--India.

Automobile industry and trade.

Industrial relations--India.

Industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 book is the first to focus on labour relations in the Indian auto industry. It proposes the theory that conflict in the auto industry has been driven by twin forces: first, the intersection of global networks of auto manufacturing with regional social structures which have always relied on informal and precariously-employed workers; and, second, the systematic displacement of securely-employed 'regular workers' by waves of precariously-employed 'de facto informal workers'.

Contents:

Introduction: the limits of industrialisation

The auto industry in India today

Auto manufacturing and the evolution of industrial policy

The transformation of labour relations

Auto workers in India's national capital region

Work and life at the bottom of the auto supply chain

Conclusion: driving down the 'low road'?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-38083-2

1-108-60346-7