Doctoral Dissertation Research: Work, Politics, and Culture in a Globalizing Economy: The Life-Worlds of Industrial Labor in a Satellite Town of Delhi

摘要0075519这个项目将调查印度法里达巴德一家大型摩托车制造厂产业工人生活的变化。随着工业全球化，工作流程和工作条件发生了巨大变化，包括新的日式车间组织系统，劳动力随机化的增加，以及工会的削弱。这使得产业工人更具争议性，工厂外工人的生活(社交网络)也在不断变化。研究人员将分析工人如何应对(顺应或抵制)不断变化的劳动组织形式，以及工人如何在工业全球化的背景下感知和构建自己的生活。方法包括参与者观察，对工人、经理、工会领袖和其他人的结构化采访，以及对工人核心样本的车间政治进行深入分析。这个项目将有助于我们理解发展中国家的产业工人如何应对新形式的工业资本主义。

Abstract 0075519 This project will investigate the changing lives of industrial workers in a large motorcycle manufacturing factory in Faridabad, India. Work processes and conditions have changed dramatically with industrial globalization, including new Japanese-style systems of shopfloor organization, increased casualization of the labor force, and the weakening of trade unions. This has made industrial labor more contentious and the lives of workers outside the factory (social networks) in flux. The researchers will analyze how workers respond to (comply with or resist) changing forms of labor organization and how workers perceive and structure their lives in the context of industrial globalization. Methods include participant observation, structured interviews with workers, managers, union leaders and others, and an intensive analysis of shopfloor politics with a core sample of workers. This project will contribute to our understanding of how industrial workers in the developing world are responding to new forms of industrial capitalism.