Dilip Subramanian

Telecommunications Industry in India

State, Business and Labour in a Global Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book 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). It tries to interrogate: How does the socio-technical system of production in a state-controlled firm shape the

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 700
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• Gewicht: 1292g
• ISBN-13: 9781032653037
• ISBN-10: 1032653035
• Artikelnr.: 70118014

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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