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Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative : The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi /

The authors tell the story of a democratic workers' cooperative that makes hand-rolled cigarettes, known as "beedis," in the unorganized sector of a fiercely competitive capitalist economy in India. For decades, beedi workers have been among the most exploited and impoverished of Indi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thomas Isaac, T. M., 1952-
Otros Autores: Raghavan, Pyaralal, Franke, Richard W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beedi workers and the Kerala model
  • The making of the Beedi working class
  • Solidarity versus retrenchment : the birth of KDB
  • From mobilization to efficiency : the role of the central society
  • The dynamics of shop floor democracy : empowerment versus supervision in the Beedi primary cooperatives
  • Efficiency and profit in the primary societies : KDB's market dilemma
  • KDB and the International Movement for Workers' Cooperatives
  • Afterword : Tobacco production and diversification at KDB.