CONTENTS: List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I THE BEGINNINGS OF AN INDUSTRY POLICY IN COLONIAL TAMIL NADU: PROVINCIAL VS IMPERIAL: 1. State Intervention in Industrialization: A Case Study of the Madras Presidency, PART II: POST-INDEPENDENCE ATTEMPTS AT INDUSTRIALIZATION: SOME ILLUSTRATIONS: 3. The (Un) Making of a (Non) Competitive Economy, 4. Liberalization, Market Concentration, and Prospects for Growth: A Study of the TVS Group of Companies, 5. The Knitwear Cluster in Tiruppur: An Indian Industrial District in the Making?-Padmini Swaminathan with J Jeyaranjan, 6. Regulating Industrialization through Public Actionand Legal Intervention: Interpreting an Experiment in Tamil Nadu, PART III: INDUSTRIAL GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION; THE MISSING LINK: 7. Technical Education and Industrial Developmentin the Madras Presidency: Illusions of a Policy in the Making, 8. Making Sense of Vocational Education Policies: A Comparative Assessment, 9. Education and Skill Development in the Context of the Declining Rate of Formal Employment Generation: Issues for Discussion, 10. Patriarchy and Class: A Study of Women's Education in the Madras Presidency, PART IV: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; WHY GENDER MATTERS: 11. Outside the Realm of ProtectiveLabour Legislation: The Saga of Unpaid Labour in India, 12. The Formal Creation of Informality and Gender Injustice: Illustrations from India's Social Sector, 13. Employment and Maternity Protection: Understanding the Poor Coverage of Beneficial Legislation through Content Analysis of Some Judgements, Bibliography, Index.