{"product_id":"japanese-management-indian-the-struggles-anjali-deshpande-9789354474187","title":"Japanese Management, Indian the Struggles of the Maruti Suzuki Workers","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anjali Deshpande,Nandita Haksar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354474187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354474187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d","brand":"Anjali Deshpande","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659557056767,"sku":"9789354474187","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/japanese-management-indian-the-struggles-anjali-deshpande-9789354474187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}