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Worlds of Indian industrial labour

By:

Breman, Jan; Kapadia, Karin; Parry, Jonathan P. Eds

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage 1999Description: xxxvi, 442p. 22cm ; HBISBN:

978-0761993959

Subject(s):

Industrial relations Industrial Policy Labor policy

DDC classification:

331.0954 PAR

Contents:

Introduction / JONATHAN P. PARRY -- 1. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India-The formal sector: An introductory review / JAN BREMAN -- 2. Work and resistance in the Jharia coalfield / DILIP SIMEON -- 3. On living in the kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh / CHRISTOPHER PINNEY -- 4. Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai / JONATHAN P. PARRY -- 5. Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60 / DOUGLAS E. HAYNES -- 6. Hope and despair: Textile workers in Kampur in 1973-38 and the 1990s / CHITRA JOSHI -- 7. Questions of class: The general strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 / RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR -- 8. At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry / SAMITA SEN -- 9. The badi system in industrial labour recruitment: Managers' and workers' strategies in Calcutta's jute industry / ARJAN DE HAAN -- 10. Artisan labour in the Agra footwear industry: Continued informality and changing threats / PETER KNORRINGA -- 11. Gender ideologies and the formation of rural industrial classes in South India today / KARIN KAPADIA. 12. Diamonds and Patels: A report on the diamond industry of Surat / MIRANDA ENGELSHOVEN -- 13. Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry / GEERT DE NEVE -- 14. The study of industrial labour in post-colonical India-The informal sector: A concluding review / JAN BREMAN.

Summary: This book addresses social processes and consequences of industrialisation in India - the growing disjunction between 'traditional' concerns of Indian sociology and the study of industrial labour

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Introduction / JONATHAN P. PARRY --
1. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India-The formal sector: An introductory review / JAN BREMAN --
2. Work and resistance in the Jharia coalfield / DILIP SIMEON --
3. On living in the kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh / CHRISTOPHER PINNEY --
4. Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai / JONATHAN P. PARRY --
5. Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60 / DOUGLAS E. HAYNES --
6. Hope and despair: Textile workers in Kampur in 1973-38 and the 1990s / CHITRA JOSHI --
7. Questions of class: The general strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 / RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR --
8. At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry / SAMITA SEN --
9. The badi system in industrial labour recruitment: Managers' and workers' strategies in Calcutta's jute industry / ARJAN DE HAAN --
10. Artisan labour in the Agra footwear industry: Continued informality and changing threats / PETER KNORRINGA --
11. Gender ideologies and the formation of rural industrial classes in South India today / KARIN KAPADIA. 12. Diamonds and Patels: A report on the diamond industry of Surat / MIRANDA ENGELSHOVEN --
13. Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry / GEERT DE NEVE --
14. The study of industrial labour in post-colonical India-The informal sector: A concluding review / JAN BREMAN.

This book addresses social processes and consequences of industrialisation in India - the growing disjunction between 'traditional' concerns of Indian sociology and the study of industrial labour

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