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

Achin Chakraborty; Subhanil Chowdhury; Supurna Banerjee; Zaad Mahmood

doi:10.1017/9781108679275

Limits of Bargaining is an original addition to the political economy analysis of capital-labour relations in the organised industrial sector in the context of economic liberalisation in India. It 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 adoption of policies of liberalisation and globalisation for the last two and half decades. It examines the nature of collective bargaining and analyses the underlying structural-political conditions that shape the capital-labour relations. Based on original empirical material from West Bengal, a state long considered pro-labour, the book presents bargaining between capital and labour as endogenous to the interplay of the triad of the market, technology and the institutions of the state. It illustrates everyday interactions between labour and management, different unions and outside actors that shape collective bargaining, and highlights the negotiation, appropriations and compromises that shape bargaining at the operational level.

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Capital, Labour and the State in Contemporary India

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Tables
pp vii-viii

List of Figures
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Contextualising Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining
pp 1-13

2 - Collective Bargaining in India: An Overview
pp 14-25

3 - Everyday Processes of Collective Bargaining in West Bengal
pp 26-49

4 - Industrial Stagnation due to ‘Labour Militancy’? A Critical Look at the Macro Evidence
pp 50-74

5 - Trade Unions and Working-Class Politics in Contemporary West Bengal
pp 75-103

6 - The State and Collective Bargaining
pp 104-128

7 - Conclusion
pp 129-131

References
pp 132-138

Index
pp 139-142

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