Making Cars in the New India
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Making Cars in the New India

Industry, Precarity and Informality

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Making Cars in the New India

Industry, Precarity and Informality

About this book

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'.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Making Cars in the New India
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Tables, Figures and Maps
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. 1. The Limits of Industrialisation
  12. 2. The Auto Industry in India Today
  13. 3. Auto Manufacturing and the Evolution of Industrial Policy
  14. 4. The Transformation of Labour Relations
  15. 5. Auto Workers in India’s National Capital Region
  16. 6. Work and Life at the Bottom of the Auto Supply Chain
  17. 7. Driving Down the ‘Low Road’?
  18. Appendix
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index