Industrialism and employment systems in India

India has followed a chequered course of economic development. The initial spurt of industrialization though accorded top priority at one stage of developmental planning could not be sustained and has advanced in the last four decades like a feeble current. This statement appears to be at variance with the impressive quantitative magnitude of industrial development but the truth is that the industrial system has not yet reached the take-off stage and, in addition, suffers from several deep-rotated weaknesses.
The main focus of the argument is not on what kind of technology India should acquire, or how managements should raise productivity and whether industrial relations are indeed a major hurdle in revolving the crisis of low productivity and high cost and the wats in which it could be lowered? In planning the book choice was between analysis and prescription and after much thought I decided to opt for the former and steer it away from the latter.