Mobilizing restraint : democracy and industrial conflict in postreform South Asia
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Mobilizing restraint : democracy and industrial conflict in postreform South Asia
(ILR/Cornell paperbacks)
ILR Press, 2011
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Mobilizing restraint : democracy and industrial conflict in post-reform South Asia
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index
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In Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are better at managing industrial conflict than authoritarian regimes. This is because democracies have two unique tools at their disposal for managing worker protest: mutually beneficial union-party ties and worker rights. By contrast, authoritarian governments have tended to repress unions and to sever mutually beneficial ties to organized labor. Many of the countries that fall between these two extremes-from those that have only the trappings of democracy to those that have imperfectly implemented democratic reforms-exert control over labor in the absence of overt repression but without the robust organizational and institutional capacity enjoyed by full-fledged democracies. Based on the recent history of industrial conflict and industrial peace in South Asia, Teitelbaum argues that the political exclusion and repression of organized labor commonly witnessed in authoritarian and hybrid regimes has extremely deleterious effects on labor relations and ultimately economic growth.
To test his arguments, Teitelbaum draws on an array of data, including his original qualitative interviews and survey evidence from Sri Lanka and three Indian states-Kerala, Maharashtra, and West Bengal. He also analyzes panel data from fifteen Indian states to evaluate the relationship between political competition and worker protest and to study the effects of protective labor legislation on economic performance. In Teitelbaum's view, countries must undergo further political liberalization before they are able to replicate the success of the sophisticated types of growth-enhancing management of industrial protest seen throughout many parts of South Asia.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Political Management of Industrial ConflictPart I. A Puzzle and an Argument
2. Industrial Relations in the Context of Economic Change
3. A Political Theory of Industrial ProtestPart II. The Evidence
4. Democracy, Union-Party Ties, and Industrial Conflict
5. Labor Institutions, FACB Rights, and Economic Performance in India
6. The Deleterious Effects of Labor Repression in Sri Lanka7. Conclusion: Theoretical and Policy ImplicationsAppendix A. Survey Methods and Response Rates
Appendix B. Labor Law Coding
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