{"product_id":"japanese-management-indian-the-struggles-of-the-maruti-suzuki-workers-paperback","title":"Japanese Management, Indian the Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnjali Deshpande\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNandita Haksar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fire broke out at around 7 pm on 18 July 2012 at Maruti Suzuki India's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emanufacturing plant in Manesar. It claimed the life of a manager. Within days, over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etwo thousand temporary workers and 546 permanent workers were dismissed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby the company, and 13 of them-including the entire leadership of the workers'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunion-were later charged for murder, thus ending yet another independent body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor collective bargaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnions are the last, and often only, line of defence workers have in modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindustries, especially when the management isn't averse to undermining their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erights, dignity and health in pursuit of higher profits. This was true of Maruti and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheir Japanese partner, and later, owner-Suzuki. Workers would get a seven-and-ahalf-minute break from physically demanding work-precise to the hundredth of a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esecond-to run to the toilet half a kilometre away and force a samosa and piping hot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etea down their throat. But they were denied two minutes of silence in the memory of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea deceased colleague's mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sabotage of their efforts at effective unionizing, generally in collusion with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaryana state government, had therefore come as no surprise to the workers. Yet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey struggled through and managed to form successive representative bodies at both\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Gurgaon plant, and the one set up in Manesar in 2007. But not only were all of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem crushed, some were never allowed to be officially registered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe often misrepresented events of July 2012 were thus far from an isolated incident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut few today, as then, are willing to see the matter from the workers' point of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar tell the story of the biggest car manufacturer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein India through the voices of the workers, interviewed over a period of 3 years. As\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey tell us of their resistance to being turned into robots by an uncompromising\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emanagement, it becomes abundantly clear that the Maruti revolution wasn't the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunmitigated success it was touted to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48716753764601,"sku":"9789354474187","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/BkNWlHkggx9789354474187.webp?v=1785073632","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/japanese-management-indian-the-struggles-of-the-maruti-suzuki-workers-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}