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Have the new economic policy and economic reforms led to weakening of labour class movements? Explain your views with examples.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

My view is that they have, but the weakening is of a particular kind. Indian labour lost its capacity to halt production and bargain industry-wide; it lost neither numbers nor the will to act. The movement was displaced from the shop floor to the street and the statute book — a real defeat at the…

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  • How the reforms weakened labour
  • What did not weaken: the counter-evidence
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