WORKER^, UNIONS AND MULTINATIONALS 1$ by the union, is of significant importance in shaping the views of this section of the working class. Left-oriented unions generally have contributed to the emergence of a conscious perception of the antagonisms which exist between MNCs and both the country as a whole and the working class in particular. (Most of the names, in order to hide the identity of the respondents, have been altered. In conducting the interviews, I have heavily relied on the dedication of Jagan Mohan Reddy, and on Padmavathy and Tutui Das who picked their way to the locations in Madras and Calcutta. Financial support was received from the Indo-Dutch Project on Alternatives in Development and from the Centre for Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology of the University of Amsterdam). 1. See a.o. V.M. Dandekar, "Nature of Class Conflict in the Indian Society in the Marxist Framework". Artha Vijnan, June 1978; V.M. Dandekar, "Bourgeois Politics of the Working Class", Economic and Political Weekly, 12 January 1980. 2. Jairus Banaji, For a New Comparability. Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in Internal Companies : an Indian case study and critiqeu, The Hague, mimeo, 1986. 3. G.K. Licten, "Indian Workers in Multinational Companies" Economic and Political Weekly, 2 May 1987. 4. Anil K. Sen Gupta, "Workers' Needs and Expectations and Strategies of Motivation : the Indian case", Economic and Political Weekly, 25 August 1969, M-83. 5. The first two aspects have been dealt with, both in a general way and with India as a specific example, in G.K. Lieten (ed). The Dutch Multinational Corporations in India : a contribution to development or under development ?, Manohar, New Delhi, 1987. 6» Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century, Trivandrum SS edition, 1979, p. 406. 7. G. K. Lieten, "Indian Workers in Multinational Companies," op. eit., Graph I. 8. Constitution and Rules of the Philips Workers' Mahaunion.