By Mark Holmström

This e-book experiences employees in 4 factories in Bangalore - an commercial urban of multiple and a part million humans in South India - and seeks to respond to questions on the location and taking into consideration employees in sleek capital extensive factories. it's in accordance with case reports of Bangalore staff and their households, on statistical fabric from administration records on staff and from different assets, and on interviews with managers and union officers. one of the central questions thought of are: who're the manufacturing unit employees and what are their origins, occupation customers and residing stipulations? Are they a privileged elite in a twin economic climate and what family are there among them and folks outdoor regular manufacturing unit employment? How do the staff see their very own scenario, as participants and as a category? and the way do they believe of a 'job' as a part of a 'career' and a occupation as a part of their lifetime, when it comes to different issues that subject to them?

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They share a common situation. They act, and sometimes think of themselves, as a group (if not a class) different from peasants, workers in the 'unorganized sector' or in older factories with different technologies, from casual labourers, shopkeepers, professional people and so on. I would need the skill of a novelist like R. K. Narayan to give the real flavour of their life and company. This chapter brings together individual workers' accounts of their careers, and what else I know about their situation and chances, to build up a composite picture of what it is to be an organized sector worker now, matching 'facts' and workers' arguments in particular contexts of experience - like job finding, home life and so on.

C. Hart, 'Urban politics in Bombay: the meaning of community', Economic Weekly, special number, June i960, 983-8. 38 Education and training TABLE 18. Age, general education andformal technical qualifications (random sample, men) Age With SSLC or better (%) With formal technical qualification (%) 72 24 26 29 24 28 Up to 25 25-9 30-4 35-9 45 40-4 42 45-9 50 and over 33 19 29 21 All ages 52 26 59 50 NOTE: Women's situation is different; and the sample of women is too small. personnel manager of a private firm said they prefer to train young men fresh from school for semi-skilled jobs (Their future is in this company, they feel that their bread is here') rather than men who are used to a different style of work in another factory or workshop.

This book is based on case studies of 104 workers from the four factories: 49 workers in public sector factories, 55 in the private sector. A random sample of the files, which managements keep on each worker, shows how far I succeeded in selecting a typical crosssection of the work force from those to whom I had personal introductions from other workers. 19 Bangalore and its factory workers The most useful part of each file is a card giving the worker's age, marital status, record of training and promotions and so on.

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