The objective of this report is to analyse labour standards and working and living
conditions of garment workers in India‘s National Capital Region (NCR), also known as
Greater Delhi. Inspired by a ‗labour regime‘ approach, this is done within the context of
capital-labour dynamics in the garment industry as well as in relation to wider issues of
social reproduction at different levels of analysis. A labour regime often is seen simply as
‗firm-level forms of labour recruitment and use‘ (see Bernstein, 2007), hence primarily
linked to the labour process. However, for the scope of this report, we adopt a wider
definition. On the one hand, we view a labour regime in line with Michael Burawoy‘s
‗factory regime‘ approach (1985) and his ‗extensive case study method‘ (1999). Burawoy
argued that the ‗factory regime‘ of an industry involved the entire spectrum of wider
social relations relevant to the specific capital-labour relations.