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Volume : II, Issue : VIII, September - 2012

Global Auto Workers' Concerns And Perspectives: Is There Any Life-enhancing Future For Labour?

Annavajhula J.C. Bose

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Industrial employers are at war with their workers. Examination of the labour situation over the last decade supports this description of labour relations in the global automobile industry. In this milieu, this paper takes stock of the auto workers' concerns and perspectives as against the rhetoric of managerial concerns and perspectives, and points to the likely future of labour movement for labour welfare.

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Annavajhula J.C. Bose, (2012). Global Auto Workers' Concerns And Perspectives: Is There Any Life-enhancing Future For Labour?. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1379.pdf

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