01139pab a2200157 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sen, Arup Kumar Mode of labour control in colonial India 2002 p.3956-966. 21 Sep From 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. Labour Economic and Political Weekly 53929 53929 53929 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 37, Issue no: 38 AR54374 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR