Industrial conflicts: a statistical analysis

Abstract

The long term trends in industrial conflicts may be interpreted in terms of the factors and events that have occurred in the political process, certain developmental factors such as the region in which the industry is located, techno-economic factors such as labour intensive or capital intensive industries, the sector in which the industry is operating, and the type of issues that have dominated some time or the other. This paper deals with the course of industrial conflicts over the last two decades. The data point towards factors contributing to the incidence of industrial conflicts in India. The factors that seem to provide the congruence are conflicts in labour intensive industries (textiles and jute), conflicts manifesting in a radically politically organized region like West Bengal or regions where major metropolises of India are situated, crises that have arisen in particular industries at particular points of time, and the political developments that have taken place at different times.