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Globalization and Plantation Workers in NorthEast India is a piece of research study regarding the impacts of globalization among the workers. The impacts have been analysed thoroughly in regard to the case of Darjeeling tea industry along with the industry in relation to other regions of West Bengal and Assam of NorthEast India. Since this is the first Sociological study on the impacts of globalization among plantation workers, it will elucidate the positive and negative sides of present globalization process in the industry. It has also incorporated a whole lot of the assessment of changes taking place since 1991 of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalization of Indian economy in tea frontiers of NorthEast India. The work will be a very essential reference book for the researchers who are going to contribute more for the literature on plantation study in Indian in near future. About The Author: Dr. K.R. Sharma, (b. 1957) is a Senior Education Officer in the Central Board for Workers Education, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India at Siliguri. He did his M.A. (Sociology and Social Anthropology) from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal. He did Ph.D. from the same University. His area of interest is Industrial Sociology, Political Sociology, Himalayan Society, Sociology of Indian Tea Industry, Ecology and environment and Labour Education. He has already published seven books to his credit. Among the publications, The Himalayan Tea Plantation Workers, Sociology of Indian Tea Industry, Agony of Plantation Workers in NorthEast India, Tea Industry in India: An Introduction and SocioEconomic Life of Cinchona Plantation Workers in India are very important academic publications. Presently, Dr. Sharma is actively engaged in an academic research project on The Eastern Himalayan Society. Shri T.C. Das (b. 1950 ) did his M.A. (Economics) from the University of Guwahati (Assam). He is Additional Director in the national headquarters of C