Overview

Telecommunications Industry in India 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). At the heart of the monograph stands one central interrogation: 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. The author evaluates the broader conclusions about the telecommunications industry and public sector through the lens of an individual firm to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of change in the globalizing Indian economy. The work is well in command of the literature on the global business history counterparts of ITI in the telecommunications industry. It is further strengthened by the use of French material on the subject which is now accessible for the first time in English.

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Author:   Dilip Subramanian
Publisher:   Social Science Press
Imprint:   Social Science Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
ISBN:  

9788187358428

ISBN 10:   8187358424
Pages:   475
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

'This is an impressive achievement that fills a major gap in the literature, that is genuinely inter-disciplinary, and that calls on a range of Francophone literature on the sociology of industry and work that is seldom cited in studies of Indian industry.' * Jonathan Parry, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science '[The work] - has the potential to become a benchmark study in government-business-labour relations during the import-substituting industrialization era in India - The proposed work evidently has a global readership - ' * Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Author Information

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

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