Worker Cooperatives in India

• Main Authors: Kerswell, Timothy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pratap, Surendra (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic development.; Economic policy.; Labor law.; Labor economics.; Development Studies.; Economic Policy.; Labour Law/Social Law.; Labor Economics.

This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions. It describes the origins of these movements in India presenting a political-strategic view of their development and, in some cases, their decline....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 India's 'Informal Sector': Demystifying A Problematic Concept
• Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh and Its Cooperative Movement
• Chapter 3 The Alcond Employees Industrial Co-operative Society Limited
• Chapter 4 Neoliberal Organizations produce Neoliberal Cooperatives: A Case Study of SEWA Rachaita
• Chapter 5 Neoliberalism vs. Village Collectivism: A Success Story From An Indian Village
• Chapter 6 Conclusion - Learning the Lessons of India's Collective Labour Institutions.