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100			_aRoy, Tirthankar
245			_aLabour institutions, Japanese competition, and the crisis of cotton mills in interwar Mumbai
260			_c2008
300			_ap.37-45.
362			_a5 Jan
520			_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.
650			_aTextile industry
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
908			_aN
909			_a76860
999			_c76860 _d76860