Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal - The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Sets, Squads, and Shifts: The Emergence and Development of the 'Multiple Shift' System
2. Uninterrupted hours of work and frequent breaks: The modalities of shared work and excess employment at the shopfloor
3. Defending the spaces and rhythms of the workplace: Labour conflicts over the change in shift systems
4. ‘Various Paths Are Today Opened’: Working class politics and the General strike of 1929
5. 'Fight to finish': Labour Conflicts in the Bengal Jute Belt in the 1930s

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anna Sailer is Lecturer at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led to a rupture in worker’s relations in the workplace and beyond.

Moving away from polarities such as class/culture or modernity/tradition and reconsidering the context around industrial conflicts in this period, Workplace relations in Colonial Bengal offers a new framework to analyse the changing organisation of work in colonial India, and identifies the implications for worker relations both inside and outside the factory. Focusing on a major colonial era industry, this book opens up new perspectives n the history of workers and colonial capitalism in modern India.

Vorwort

A study analysing the workplace in colonial Bengal’s jute industry, offering a new engagement with labour processes and insight into labour movements from 1870 to 1930.

Zusatztext

[This book] highlights the importance of work relations and the organisation of work – conventionally known as labour process theory – in our understanding of the Jute Industry, its working population and its political economy between the 1870s and the 1940s in Calcutta…The discussion presented in the monograph is illuminating and analytically valuable.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Sailer, Anna (Centre for Modern Indian Studies Sailer, SAILER ANNA
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781350233539
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23353-9
• Seiten: 312
• Abmessung: 162 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, HISTORY / Asia / South / General