Articles by Annavajhula J C B

The realities of work, workers and working conditions - as found by those who rough it out in the field - are mostly opposite to the mysterious universal rhetoric about high-road human resource management practices corresponding to world class manufacturing methodologies used for gaining competitiveness in the global automobile industry, as propounded, mostly out of thin air, by some industrial elites and evangelical academics. Based on worker interviews, this two-part article (Part I appeared last week) throws light on labour relations in an auto production chain of lead and subcontracting companies in Delhi National Capital Region. Part II over here explains why the dominant reality can be captured as industrial terrorism and low-road employment conditions by examining some important events of labour unrest that took place in Delhi NCR.

A New Techno-Economic Paradigm Annavajhula J C B The study examines the predicted and actual impact of new flexible production technologies on industrial production organisation in industrial countries. By outlining the problematic context in which these technologies evolved as appropriate responses to certain challenges faced in production and distribution, it then highlights the point that these technologies have contributed to productive integration as also decentralisation at the domestic and international levels. Evidence gathered here does not fully endorse the relocationist or and-relocationst (trade reversal) views. In general, it seems we are in a non-monotonic flux of 'much can be said on both sides.' INTRODUCTION WE know that process technology is the technology that determines the way in which products are made. This review article is just an exploratory inquiry into new process/manufacturing technologies stricto sensu, in particular of microelectronics based or computerised production technologies. In what way do these new technologies impact on the 'make- buy' or production sub-contracting policies of firms? That is the complex question that especially concerns us here.