The rise of neo-liberal globalisation and the 'new old' social regulation of labour: A case of delhi garment sector

Indian Journal of Labour Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 603-618

  Mezzadri, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; DEVELOPING WORLD; GLOBALIZATION; INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; NEW DELHI; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 65349171670     PISSN: 09717927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. AEPC (2002), Directory of Apparel Exporters, Apparel Export Promotion Council, New Delhi.
2. -(2004), Handbook of Export Statistics, Data from 1983-2003, Various Issues, Apparel Export Promotion Council, New Delhi.
3. Alam, G. (1992), Industrial Districts and Technological Change: A Study of the Garment Industry in Delhi, Centre for Technological Studies, New Delhi (mimeo).
4. Ambedkar Institute of Labour Studies (1980), Problems of Clothing Industry in India-A Trade Union View, Report presented at the International Labour Organisation's Second Tripartite Technical Meeting for Clothing Industry, Geneva, September 23-October 2.
5. -(2005), Textile and Clothing Industries in India and Phasing out of MFA-A Study Report, Internal Report, Mumbai.
6. Amin, A. (1994), Post-Fordism-A Reader, Blackwell Publisher Ltd., Oxford.
7. Appelbaum, R.P. (2005), TNCs and the Removal of Textile and Clothing Quotas, Global and International Studies Programme Paper No. 38, University of California, Santa Barbara, UNCTAD, New York and Geneva.
8. Bair, J. (2005), "Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Backward, Going Forward", Competition and Change, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 163-80.
9. Banajee, J. (2003), "The Fictions of Free Labour: Contract, Coercion, and So-Called Unfree Labour", Historical Materialism, Vol.11, No. 3, pp. 69-95.
10. Bernstein, H. (2007), "Capital and Labour from Centre to Margins", Keynote Address for Conference on Living on the Margins, Vulnerability, Exclusion and the State in the Informal Economy, Cape Town, March 26-28, http://www.povertyfrontiers.org/ev-en.php?ID=1953-201&ID2=DO- TOPIC, accessed on October 29, 2008.
11. Blake, S. (1993), "Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 1639-1739", Cambridge South Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
12. Breman, J. (1995), "Labour Get Lost: A Late Capitalist Manifesto", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, September 16, pp. 2294-300.
13. -(1996), Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
14. Castells, M. and Portes, A. (1989), "World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics and Effects of the Informal Economy", in A. Portes, M. Castells and L.A. Benton, The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 11-37.
15. Chari, S. (2004), Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-made Men, and Globalisation in Provincial India, Permanent Black, New Delhi.
16. Datt, R. (2002), "Industrial Relations-The Menacing Growth of the Phenomenon of Lockouts", in R.K. Sen (ed.), Indian Labour in the Post-Liberalisation Period, K.P. Bagchi & Company, Kolkata.
17. Davies, M. (2006), Planet of Slums, Verso, London.
18. DeNicola, A.O. (2003), "Mediating Design, Manufacturing Tradition: Innovation in Bagru's Print Industry", in S. Singh and V. Joshi (eds.), Institutions and Social Change, Rawat, New Delhi, pp. 88-105.
19. -(2004), "Designing: Imagining Tradition", Excerpt from Creating Borders, Maintaining Boundaries-Traditional Work and Global Markets in Bagru's Hand-Block Textile Industry, Ph.D. Thesis, Syracuse University, New York.
20. -(2005), "Working through Tradition; Experiential Learning and Formal Training as Markers of Class and Caste in Indian Block Printing Industry", Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 12-16.
21. Gereffi G. and Ramaswamy, K.V. (2000), "India's Apparel Exports: The Challenge of Global Markets", Developing Economies, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 186-210.
22. Gereffi, G. and Korzeniewics, M. (1994), Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut.
23. Gibbon, P. (2001), "Globalisation, Present-day Capitalism, Commodity Chains", in J. Degnbol-Martinussen and L.S. Lauridsen (eds.), Changing Global and Regional Conditions for Development in the Third World, Occasional Paper 21, Graduate School, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, pp. 21-32.
24. Granovetter, M. (1985), "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 481-510.
25. Gupte, V. (2004), Trade Union Movement in India: A Brief History, Mill Mazdoor Education Trust, Mumbai.
26. Harriss-White, B. (2003), India Working-Essays on Society and Economics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
27. -(2008), Rural Commercial Capital-agricultural Markets in West Bengal, Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 334-229.
28. Jenkins, R.; Pearson, R. and Seyfang, G. (2002), Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights-Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy, Earthscan Publications, London.
29. Kotz, D.M.; McDonough, T. and Reich, M. (1994), Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
30. Krishnamoorthy, S. (2004), Structure of the Garment Industry and Labour Rights in India-The Post MFA Context, Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi.
31. Lai, T. (2004), Diagnostic Study, Report and Action Plan for the Ready-made Garment Cluster, SISI Okhla, Government of India, New Delhi.
32. Lerche, J. (2007), "A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-liberal Globalisation and the International Labour Organisation", Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 425-52.
33. Mezzadri, A. (2007), "The Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Garment Sector in India: A Case Study from Delhi Industrial Area at the End of the Multi Fibre Agreement", in At the Crossroads: South Asian Research, Policy and Development in a Globalised World, SDPI and Sama, Karachi.
34. NCEUS (2007), Report on the condition of work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector, National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, New Delhi.
35. Raikes, P.; Friis Larsen, M. and Ponte, S. (2000), "Global Commodity Chain Analysis and the French Filière Approach. Comparison and Critique", Working Paper, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen.
36. Rani, U. and Unni, J. (2004), "Unorganised and Organised Manufacturing in India, Potential for Employment-generating Growth", Economic and Political Weekly, October 9, pp. 4569-80.
37. Rigg, J. (2006), "Land, Fanning, Livelihoods, and Poverty: Rethinking the Links in the Rural South", World Development, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 180-202.
38. Roy, T. (1999), 'Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India", Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
39. Saad Filho, A. (2007), "Monetary Policy in the Neo-liberal Transition: A Political Economy Review of Keynesianism, Monetarism and Inflation Targeting", R. Albritton, B. Jessop and R. Westra (eds.), Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future, Anthem Press, London, pp. 89-119.
40. Saad-Filho, A. and Johnston, D. (2005), Neo-liberalism: A Critical Reader, Pluto Press, London.
41. Sender, J. and Johnston, D. (2003), "Searching for a Weapon of Mass Production in Rural Africa: Unconvincing Arguments for Land Reform", Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 142-64.
42. Sender, J.; Oya, C. and Cramer, C. (2006), "Women Working for Wages: Putting Flesh on the Bones of a Rural Labour Market Survey in Mozambique", Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 313-33.
43. Silver B. J. (2003), "Introduction", in Forces of Labour, Workers' Movements and Globalisation since 1870, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-40.
44. Silver, B.J. and Arrighi, G. (2000), "Workers North and South", in L. Panitch and C. Leys (eds.), Socialist Register 2001, Merlin Press, London, pp. 51-74.
45. Singh, N. and Kaur Sapra, M (2007) "Liberalisation in Trade and Finance: India's Garment Sector", in B. Harriss-White and A. Sinha, A. (eds.), Trade Liberalisation and India's Informal Economy, Oxford University Press New Delhi, pp. 42-127
46. Singh, N.; Kaur, R., and Kaur Sapra, M. (2004), Continents Wide and Layers Deep: Gendered Labour Process and Garment Industry in the Times of Restructuring, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi.
47. UNIDO (2005), "List of SME Industrial Clusters in India", http://www.smallindustryindia.com/clusters/clus/indsme.htm, accessed on October 29, 2008.
48. Unni, J. and Rani, U. (2008), Flexibility of Labour in Globalising India, The Challenge of Skills and Technology, Tulika Books, New Delhi.
49. World Bank (1993), The East Asia Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, University Press, Oxford.