01088pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002000040245004500060260000900105300001600114362001100130520076800141650001100909773003400920180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSen, Arup Kumar  aMode of labour control in colonial India  c2002  ap.3956-966.  a21 Sep  aFrom the late 19th century onwards, managing agency firms acquired a firm control of most cotton, jute and other mills as well as tea gardens and local mines, while looking at processes of labour control in the Bengal jute mills, the coalfields of Bengal and Bihar and the cotton mills of Bombay and Ahmedabad, this paper probes deeper into the dichotomy that prevailed as industrial capitalism first set up roots in India, for while policy decisions relating to wages, technology, etc, was vested in the managing agency system, disciplining of labour took place at the shop floor and in workers' neigbourhoods.  Further, these middlemen, jobbers and agents came to exert overweening influence in the `culture of coercion' that was thus established. - Reproduced.  aLabour  aEconomic and Political Weekly