14 §OdtAL gCtfeNtlST to negotiations on service condition. Tabi 2 shows in any case that there exists a close correlation between the position of the union leadership, as sketched in the preceding paragraphs, and the members, with the Bombay and Calcutta units occupying opposite extremes. DIFFERENCJ TableBS IN MNC ASSESSMEN1 2r IN VARIOUS PHILIPS I JNITS f Location Positive Attitude Negative Attitude Frequency * Bombay HO 96 4 23 Bombay Kalwa 80 20 35 Madras 66 33 9 Pune 59 41 34 Calcutta 30 63 60 Calcutta (Elmi) 12 88 16 Total 54 44 177 Summing Up The high profits which are often associated with modern, capital-intensive industries, can have a profound impact on the homogeneity and the internal cohesion of the working class. The higher wages which these industries can pay, may set their labour force apart as a so-called labour aristocracy. If the industries are moreover owned and partially managed by expatriate companies, the possibility of the creation of corporate citizens, delinked from nationalist causes, emerges. The focus of the article has been to investigate, on the basis of a sample of multinational corporations in India, whether the latter process has occurred. The overall impression is that it has not, and that the workers concerned share what generally appears to be the mainstream Indian approach to multinational corporations. Most of the workers and employees were discontented with the working conditions. Elsewhere, we have elaborated how the discontent is related to the value of labour and the price of labour (e. g., 22 per cent of the work force were graduates, a further 43 per cent had SSLC; see footnote 3 ). Around half of the respondents, moreover, maintained a negative opinion on the role of multinational corporations, thus negating the widespread opinion of their incorpoation into the corporate structure. The differential treatment of certain layers, particularly the beneficial treatment meted out to the clerical staff, shows up in the differences of opinion which exist. We have, however, shown that in addition to the objective variables, the subjective variables, particularly the role played