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Tables and Figures Tables 1.1. Regional cases 19 4.1. Determinants of strikes in fifteen Indian states 90 4.2. Political affiliations and ideological orientations of major party unions 96 4.3. Political structure of the union movement in four regional cases 100 4.4. Percentage of manufacturing companies experiencing various types of worker protest in four regional cases, 1991–2002 102 4.5. Logit and ordered logit models of worker protest 107 4.6. Predicted probabilities of protest by major party, narrow interest, and enterprise unions 108 5.1. State intervention, employment protection, and economic performance in the Indian states 132 5.2. The effects of three types of regulation on economic performance in India: An industry-level analysis 134 6.1. Structure of the union movement in Sri Lanka 149 6.2. Logit and ordered logit models of worker protest in Sri Lanka 154 x TABLES AND FIGURES 6.3. Predicted probabilities of protest by United Front and narrow interest unions 155 Figures 2.1. India’s exposure to international trade 33 2.2. Agriculture-industry terms of trade and pricing power of manufacturing 36 2.3. Small-scale industry share of total exports 37 2.4. Trends in the product wage and real wages 40 2.5. Share of value added to labor and capital 44 2.6. Frequency and duration of industrial disputes in India’s manufacturing sector 46 2.7. Causes of industrial disputes in India 47 5.1. Industrial disputes law index 123 5.2. Employment protection law index 126 5.3. Percentage of workers employed in public utilities 127 5.4. Percentage of output produced in public utilities 127 5.5. Plots of lag and lead dummies for state-level CSTS analysis of labor regulation and economic performance 136 6.1. Dispute volume in Sri Lanka’s manufacturing sector 150 6.2. Trends in frequency of extreme protest and FDI in Sri Lanka 157 6.3. Monthly closure applications in Sri Lanka’s private manufacturing sector 158 7.1. Dispute volume in Kerala and West Bengal 167 ...

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