01072pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002000040245009700060260000900157300001300166362001000179520069400189650002100883773003400904180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aRoy, Tirthankar  aLabour institutions, Japanese competition, and the crisis of cotton mills in interwar Mumbai  c2008  ap.37-45.  a5 Jan  aIndia and Japan were leading centres of the cotton textile mill industry in the inter world, thanks to a significant wage advantage they shared over their Atlantic rivals. Mills in India found it hard to deal with competition from Japan until protective tariffs came to their rescue. Several contemporaries attributed the outcome to the industriousness of the workers, and one viewpoint held the mode of labour organisation in the Indian mills to be responsible for high labour turnover and neglect of training. The paper discusses this perspective and suggests that that the theme of labour organisation has enduring relevance for the study of comparative industrialisation. - Reproduced.  aTextile industry  aEconomic and Political Weekly