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Decentralised Production Systems and Labour Market Flexibility: A Study of the Leather Footwear Industry in South India
B. Vaithegi

The broad objective of the paper is to understand the decentralised production method by analyzing the labour process and associated labour flexibility in the context of leather footwear industry in Southern India. The paper argues that leather footwear industries located in Ambur is highly mechanized and assembly line form of production organisation. The structure of production is decentralised, which implies that certain production operations are subcontracted by registered factories to informal small units and to home-based women workers through subcontractors. It is found that labour flexibility is quite evident in Ambur leather footwear industry.

March 10, 2007.


 
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