In post-independence India, as in many developing post-colonial nations, the capitalist class was dependent on the state to discipline the laborforce, and the rapid uptake of capitalist production methods prompted the new government to intervene aggressively in industrial labor relations. The main goal of postcolonial labor policy was to maintain peaceful labor relations at any cost in order to foster economic development. The newly elected government failed to help capitalists increase their profits through productivity growth, so the way forward was to impose restrictions on labor. Pro-capital labor legislation initially enabled capitalists to curb the mobility and resistance of workers. In due course, however, irrespective of how consistently or effectively labor regulations and repressive measures were enforced, the reaction of the working class heightened its political consciousness, and thus aggravated frictions between capital and labor. When the state resorted to labor welfare laws as a new strategy to reduce these conflicts, employers often fragmented production among smaller units (such as workshops and households) in order to dodge labor regulations. As a reaction to this production decentralization, the working-class movement created impediments to the process of continual capital accumulation.

在独立后的印度，与许多后殖民国家一样，资产阶级依赖国家来约束劳动力，资本主义生产方式的迅速采用促使新政府积极干预工业劳动关系。后殖民劳动政策的主要目标是不惜一切代价维持和平的劳动关系，以促进经济发展。新当选的政府未能通过生产率的增长帮助资本家增加利润，因此前进的道路就是对劳动力施加限制。亲资本的劳动立法最初使资本家能够遏制工人的流动和反抗。然而，到了适当的时候，无论劳动法规和镇压措施的执行多么一致或有效，工人阶级的反应都会提高其政治意识，从而加剧资本与劳工之间的摩擦。当国家诉诸劳动福利法作为减少这些冲突的新策略时，雇主往往将生产分散在较小的单位（例如车间和家庭）中，以逃避劳动法规。作为对这种生产分散化的反应，工人阶级运动为资本持续积累的过程制造了障碍。