Diagnosing the car ailment! Gurgaon: July’s violence at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant claimed the life of a general manager, cost hundreds of workers their jobs and caused the company a production loss of close to a quarter of a billion dollars. It also threw light on the disproportionately high use of contract workers by India’s manufacturing companies, a practice that helps them manoeuvre around the country’s rigid labour rules. Contract labourers have been found to be often poorly paid in comparison to permanent workers. And the visible inequality that this arrangement...