Center For Workers Education

for building a democratic labour movement in India

Research Papers/Reports

1. Globalisation and Labour

International Capital Mobility, Global Value Chains and the Emerging Labour Movement in Asia
Emerging Trends in Factory Asia (1)
 by Surendra Pratap

ISSUES OF LABOUR UNREST IN ASIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HOTSPOTS AND FLASHPOINTS; by Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose. Journal of Indian Research (ISSN: 2321-4155), Vol.3, No.1, January-March, 2015, 1-23; http://mujournal.mewaruniversity.in/JIR3-1/JIR3-1.pdf

FINANCIALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION:TRIPLE MONSTERS EATING UP LIVELIHOODS, by Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J. C. Bose; International Journal of Development Research
Vol. 5, Issue, 05, pp. 4355-4365, May, 2015; http://www.journalijdr.com/financialization-international-capital-mobility-and-primitive-accumulation-triple-monsters-eating-li

Political Agenda of the Corporate vs Political Agenda of Labour in New Global Politico-Economic Regime by Surendra Pratap

 

Bangladesh Garment Industry in Turmoil

  by Surendra Pratap

 

Political Economy of Special Economic Zones in China and Implications for Labour

by Surendra Pratap

 

CSR and the Political Agenda of the Corporate-by surendra Pratap

Book – The Reality of CSR – AMRC

 

Liberalization of Economy and Politics of CSR in India-by Surendra Pratap, Sanjiv Pandita and Fahmi Panibang

The Reality of CSR – AMRC

Global Factories: Concepts, Structures and Consequences by Surendra Pratap and AJC Bose, MANAGEMENT TODAY, Vol.5, No.4, October-December 2015; http://www.mgmt2day.griet.ac.in/attach/1451727741_5.4.5.pdf

2. Labour Reforms

The Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India I by Surendra Pratap

The Political-economy-of-labour-reforms-part-II-The-Agenda-of-Labour by Surendra Pratap

The Political Economy of Labour law Reforms in India III by Surendra Pratap

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3. Occupational Health and Safety

Hyperbolic discounting in occupational safety and health in South Asia; http://ilera2015.com/dynamic/full/IL9.pdf by Michael Walker and Surendra Pratap

 

Corporate led Globalization aggravating the problems of occupational Health and Safety

by Surendra Pratap

4. Labour Rights in Industries

Labour Contractors and Global Production Networks: The Case of India’s Auto Supply Chain by Tom Barnes, Krishna Shekhar Lal Das and Surendra Pratap; The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, 2015; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00220388.2014.983908

Struggle for a Dignified Life: The Case of Paharpur Workers, by Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose; Social Action, JULY–SEPTEMBER 2015 VOLUME 65 NO. 3; http://www.isidelhi.org.in/subpages.php?page=journals&subpageid=26

A Report on Rico auto and Sunbeam Workers Struggle

A report on Graziano workers struggle: Conditions becoming explosive, it may blast any time at any place- The Case of Graziano

Emerging forms of Struggle The case of Maruti Suzuki workers struggle by Surendra Pratap

Workers in the Supply Chain of Electronics Industry in India by Surendra Pratap

Labour Rights in High Tech Electronics

Worker_Voices_in_an_Auto_Production_Chain by AJC Bose and Surendra Pratap

Workers Voices in Auto Production Chain PartII by AJC Bose and Surendra Pratap

Presentation on Bidi Workers

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5. Ideological and Political Problems of Working Class Movement

Political Agenda of the Corporate vs Political Agenda of Labour in New Global Politico-Economic Regime by Surendra Pratap

 

SEZs-The New War Zones of Working Class in India

  by surendra Pratap

 

Shrinking spaces for collective bargaining in India

  by Surendra Pratap

 

Resurgence of the working class movement- Hopes and challenges reflected in the recent struggles

by Surendra Pratap

The Challenges Before the Labour Movement in India: INDE : LES SYNDICATS FACE AU DÉFI DE LA RESTRUCTURATION DU CAPITALISME; http://www.cetri.be/Inde-les-syndicats-face-au-defi-de?lang=fr by Surendra Pratap

DEVELOPMENT AS POLITICS : A STUDY OF EMERGING WORKERS’ MOVEMENTS IN INDIA, by Surendra Pratap and J.C. Bose; Journal of Economic & Social Development (ISSN 0973 – 886X), Vol. – XI, No. 1, June 2015; http://www.iesd.org.in/jesd/Journal%20pdf/2015-XI-1%20Surendra%20Pratap%20and%20J.%20C.%20Bose.pdf

The Challenges before the Labour Movement in India (1) by Surendra Pratap

WORKING PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN ECONOMY A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, By Surendra Pratap and AJC Bose, International Journal of Social and Economic Research Vol.5 No. 2 (April‐June 2015); http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijser…5…2…pdf

Transforming the Working and Living Conditions of Workers in India by Surendra Pratap and A.J.C. Bose; Indian Labour Journal (ISSN: 0019-5723), Vol. 56, No.4, April, 2015; http://labourbureau.nic.in/ILJ_APR_2014.pdf

A picture of trade unions in India by Surendra Pratap and AJC Bose, Indian Streams Research Journal Impact (ISSN 2230-7850), Volume – 5, Issue – 8, Sept – 2015

 

NREGA and the scope for revival of rural labour movement in India

  by Surendra Pratap

 

Aggravating Problems of Social Exclusion and Challenges before the labour Movement

by Surendra Pratap

Trade Union Repression in India (1) by Surendra Pratap

Nepalese migrants in India and their Problems by Surendra Pratap

6. Informalisation

Informality in Automobile Value Chains in India by Timothy Kerswell and Surendra Pratap, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume 18, December 2015 • pp. 533–553; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/wusa.12211/abstract

 

Informal Sector Map of India

  by surendra Pratap

 

Informal Sector in India and Challenges for its Transformation

by Surendra Pratap

8. Social Security

 

Social security- A struggle of survival for Workers in the age of Globalization

by Surendra Pratap

Towards a Regional Social Security Minima-Key Note Address in Third International Conference of Asian Round Table on Social Security, Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 2011 by Surendra Pratap

Realizing social protection and decent work for all in Asia-Global Network by Surendra Pratap, Sally Choi and Wulan Dari

Sharpening Labour’s role in advancing social protection in asia

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Labour Quotes

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

Abraham Lincoln

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,”

Samuel Gompers

Social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

Bhagat Singh

Building Unity in Diversity

In the new global politico-economic regime with new international division of labour, informalization of labour, free mobility of capital, alarming expansion of reserve army of labour and creation of global reserve army of labour for capital, and a system of regulating at international level and deregulating at national level, the pre-globalization strategies of organizing and collective bargaining have largely become ineffective and irrelevant. Therefore the labour movements and the social, political movements in general need to develop and implement new strategies of organizing and collective bargaining effective in new global politico-economic regime.

Divide, isolate and rule is the most important aspect of the capitalism to control the labour by not letting the working class emerge as a unified force. Dividing the working class in different sectional interests, and intensifying social conflicts (caste, gender, religion, regionality and nationality conflicts etc) are important strategies of capitalism. On the other hand, by its various institutions and propaganda machinery, the capitalism blurs the link between various sectional problems and their linkage with the capitalist system and therefore the movements appear detached from each other and focused on their sectional issues rather than challenging the capitalist system that produces and reproduces these problems.

The fate of social, political movements in India depends on their attitude towards learning and building unity in diversity at various levels to defeat the capital’s attempts to divide, isolate and rule. The revival of the working class movement also depends on this factor.

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