Democracy at work in an Indian industrial cooperative : the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi /
The authors tell the story of a democratic workers' cooperative that makes hand-rolled cigarettes, known as "beedis," in the unorganized sector of a fiercely competitive capitalist economy in India. For decades, beedi workers have been among the most exploited and impoverished of Indi...
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Ithaca, NY :
ILR Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Beedi workers and the Kerala model
- The making of the Beedi working class
- Solidarity versus retrenchment : the birth of KDB
- From mobilization to efficiency : the role of the central society
- The dynamics of shop floor democracy : empowerment versus supervision in the Beedi primary cooperatives
- Efficiency and profit in the primary societies : KDB's market dilemma
- KDB and the International Movement for Workers' Cooperatives
- Afterword : Tobacco production and diversification at KDB.