SUGAR COOPERATIVES 61 operative Sugar Factories in Maharashtra, 1976. Similar views arc also found in YJ Mohite, op cit, pp (vi), (vii). 6 Gail Omvedt, "Sugar Factories Strike", Economic and Political Weekly, 1 December 1979. 16 In the cooperative factories in the Marathwada region, itself a backward and drought-prone area and from where labourers migrate to other parts of the state in search of work, cheaper labour is imported from the neighbouring Tclengana and from Uttar Pradesh. 17 For an informative study of migrant labour employed in sugar cooperatives in Surat district of Gujarat, see Jan Breman, ^Seasonal Migration and Co-operative Capitalism—the Crushing of Cane and Labourers", Economic and Political Weekly, Special Number, August !978. 15 Quoted in Co-operative Sugar Factories Play a Vital Role in Socio-Economic Upliftment of Rural Population, pamphlet by the National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories for MRSSKS. 19 For a brief cross— study, see "Co-operatives: The True Story", Economic and Political Weekly, 29 Septcmper 1973. 30 For instance, the public school started by the Warna Nagar Co-operative Sugar Factory, whose chairman is Shankerrao Kore, a Congress (I) M P, has a Principal who has served for over a decade in a similar capacity in a school in the United States of America.