Articles by Sharit Kumar Bhowmik

This paper documents the experience of the Saongaon workers co-operative in West Bengal and the Tachai workers co-operative in Tripura, both in the tea industry. The author stresses the broad democratic method of functioning which has encouraged workers' participation in the decision-making process. The changes in organisational structures and the evolution of formal and informal methods to prevent the concentration of power in a new bureaucracy are highlighted.


These could also promote the creation or extension of a European bloc in Western Europe or in all of Europe, including Eastern Europe, and with some possible participation of the Soviet Union as well. Such a European bloc might be extended to include Africa and the Middle East as well. Similarly, renewed pressures could build up toward the formation of a Japanese "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" (to recall the term of the 1930s) in the Pacific area. The possible breakdown of the dollar based international monetary system, which is already manifest in the upgrading of the German mark and Japanese yen, forebodes the possibility also of a creation of economic blocs around the US dollar, the German mark or a mark based Eurocurrency, the Japanese yen, and possibly the Soviet ruble.