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Mumbai's Dabbawalla: The uncommon story of the common man (Record no. 2130)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-93-84030-73-5
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Source Allied Informatics, Jaipur
Bill Number 6147
Bill Date 30/04/2019
Purchase Year 2019-20
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency BSDU
Language of cataloging English
Transcribing agency BSDU
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 658.50954792
Item number BON
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bondre, Shobha
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mumbai's Dabbawalla: The uncommon story of the common man
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Westland Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 156
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General note The Dabbawala tradition is more than a century old. It was begun by a man from the Maval region of Maharashtra. He was one of many people who came to Bombay, to find work. He worked at the harbor and around the city, hauling goods. He then decided to start a service delivering food from home to people working in government offices in the city.<br/><br/>The idea caught on and Mahadu Bacche was joined by others from Maval looking for work. The Mumbai Dabbawala network was born in the beginning of the twentieth century. It has survived to this day.<br/><br/>Mumbai's Dabbawala: The Uncommon Story Of The Common Man traces the history of this network of food delivery men. The service thrived for many years, then it ran into trouble during the final decades of the previous century. In the 1980s and 1990s, the network began to fall apart, as the workers fought among themselves and the central management of the network lost control control over them.<br/><br/>Then, Raghunath Medge came on the scene. An educated man, he had joined the Dabbawala network on his father’s death. When he took up the work, the Dabbawala profession and their association was in deep trouble. Raghunath Medge began to reorganize the network. He also began to use English alphabets instead of symbols to mark the lunch boxes.<br/><br/>He soon had the network back on its feet and functioning smoothly. After his reforms, the Dabbawalas began to attract attention from business gurus. They even received the Six Sigma rating which meant that they were so organized and efficient that they hardly made a single mistake in millions of deliveries.<br/><br/>The BBC made a documentary on the Dabbawalas captured the attention of Prince Charles. On a visit to India, he met the Dabbawalas and they received an invitation to attend his wedding in 2005. Raghunath Medge and another associate attended the wedding, and the Dabbawalas were definitely in the spotlight after this.<br/><br/>It is an incredible and inspiring story, about a small network of laborers who deliver food to office workers. Most people would not even have given them a second thought. But, by transforming themselves into a smoothly operating business association, they grabbed the attention of the world.<br/><br/>Mumbai's Dabbawala: The Uncommon Story Of The Common Man is told from the point of view of two people, One, Raghunath Medge, is personally involved and is in fact credited with turning things around for the business and making it a success story. The other viewpoint, a third person perspective, is provided by the author, Shobha Bondre.
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Bibliography, etc. note Contents<br/>London Calling<br/>Champagne and Peanut Chutney<br/>"NMTBSA" A force to reckon with<br/>From "Bhonawala" To "Dabbawala"<br/>Learning The ABCs<br/>To Deal or not to deal with Haji Mastan?<br/>My College Days<br/>Managing Two Worlds<br/>The First Step Towards Modernization<br/>My Childhood Years<br/>My Father's Wedding<br/>The Dream That Never Came True<br/>An Irreparable Loss<br/>A Whole new burden<br/>From the courtroom to the fields<br/>Operation clean-up<br/>A campaign for survival<br/>Light at the end of the tunnel<br/>Now everyone is an owner<br/>The six sigma crown<br/>What is six sigma?<br/>Prince Charles Meets The Dabbawalas<br/>Management & court cases<br/>And the credit goes to<br/>Making the Headlines<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Entrepreneurship
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     BSDU Knowledge Resource Center, Jaipur BSDU Knowledge Resource Center, Jaipur General Stacks 05/04/2019 250.00 1 658.50954792 BON 017720 10/14/2024 10/19/2021 250.00 05/04/2019 Books