Political leaders see ‘foreign hand’ in every adverse situation. A recent story in The WEEK Magazine reports ‘foreign hand’, Chinese to be precise, in the…
Believe it or not. Some accidents are more important than other accidents. And some lives are more important than other lives. Chances are that conscientious…
Thane HR Group had invited Dr. Vidyadhar Ishwar (Labour Economist and Associate Prof at Aston University, Birmingham, UK) to deliver a talk on ‘Labour Market…
There are several external factors influence industrial relations. Let us take a quick look at them. The first factor which affects industrial relations is the…
A friend told me this story. His five-year-old daughter put a quiz to him (only kids can imagine such situations!): ‘A man falls from the…
“Watching Mahabharat, eh?” Lulu, my parrot, flew in and landed on the chair next to me. Just in case you do not know, parrots have…
My purpose of travelling to Pune was to find out what happens to families of the workers who lose their jobs. I wanted to focus…
In my discussion with Arvind Shrouti (Option Positive) who is an adviser to several unions in Pune, we realized that we were looking at the…
Pune industrialists seem to pick important days to down the shutters without warning and delivering shocks to their employees. We published how Racold closed down…
This research paper authored by noted economist Dr. B.Vidyadhar Ishwar MSc. PhD (LSE), Aston University, UK, is presented here with his permission, and is not…