Telecommunications Industry in India: State, Business and Labour in a Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9781138552531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 686 str.

Subramanian, Dilip (University of Cyprus)

Opis

This book represents the first comprehensive study of a state-run enterprise in the telecommunications industry. The study traces over a period of half a century (1948-2009) the growth and decline of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI). It tries to interrogate: How does the socio-technical system of production in a state-controlled firm shape the relations linking the four main actors: the state, management, union and workers? The original contribution of this book lies in combining business history and labour history within a single conceptual framework.

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Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Construction of a Monopoly 2. The History and Politics of Technological Change 3. The Burden of Monopoly and State Regulation 4. The Advent of Competition: Fallout of Global Telecommunications Deregulation 5. Market Forces in Full Play: Management Gains or Losses for Labour? 6. Spheres of Practice: An Ethnography of Printed Circuit Board Assembly Work 7. Workers and Independent Unionism 8. Rank-and-File Challenge to Union and Management Authority 9. Passions of Language and Caste

O autorze

Dilip Subramanian is Associate Professor at the Reims Management School and is affiliated to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.