New Industrial Policy and Labour Relations

Contents: Preface. 1. Industrial policy in India. 2. Industrial policy. 3. Industrial policy and performance since 1980. 4. Defragmenting global disintegration of value creation and labour relations. 5. Neo-liberalizing the ‘urban’: new geographies of power and injustice in Indian cities. Bibliography.

“Post-1990s have seen a sea of change in the Industrial Policy of India. The overprotective Indian market were opened to foreign companies and investors. Thus Indian Industry registered an impressive growth during the last decade and half. The number of industries in India have increased manifold in the last fifteen years. Though the main occupation has been agriculture for the bulk of the Indian population, it was realized that India would become a prosperous and a modern state with industrialization. Therefore different programmes were formulated and initiated to build up an adequate infrastructure for rapid industrialization and improve the industrial scenario in India.

With rapid industrialization and modern business practices like labour outsourcing, BPO, ancillary factories, separate assembling units, etc. new problems of labour management and labour welfare have arisen. The earlier ways and practices o labour disciplining and labour welfare have become redundant. Certain laws favoring labour/workers have been scrapped or amended. In their place new rules and laws favoring management have been enacted, aiming to achieve rapid economic growth and greater GDP. Trade uni8on activities, labour leaders, and other labour welfare bodies are now gone into hibernation, and there is revolting new Industrial Policy and labour relations. This book tries to look into certain aspects of New Industrial Policy and labour relations.” (jacket)