| dc.description.abstract | Trade unions represent employee collec
tives ' voice to otherwise disaggregated
employees to check the arbitrary use of
managerial power. In the age of
globalisation, where state policy, free
movement of capital and the spreading
footprints of multinational corporations
across the world have intersected to
create the Zeitgeist of liberalisation and
deregulation, Indian trade unions are
loosing sympathy from numerous quar
ters. Though unions at the grassroots are
aligned to larger state and national
unions, these alignments appear to be
only formal in nature and devoid of the
ideological richness that they should
normally yield. There appear to be great
asymmetries in power as well. Through
interviews with seven trade union lead
ers, the authors were able to discern the
expression of alienated connectedness
characterised by powerlessness, self es
trangement, normlessness, socio-cultural
isolation and disenchantment | |
