Sonali Tea Garden, 1973-1981 Ratna Sen This article deals with an experiment in workers' management of a tea garden in the eastern region of India. While the experiment related informal terms to the creation of a co-operative for take-over of a tea estate abandoned by its owners, the main point of interest is the efficient management of the garden by the workers who nursed it back from a point of sickness to a position of health without any of the traditional accoutrements of management.
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