Peripheral Labour - Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization

Klappentext Takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers' and contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography. Zusammenfassung This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history! this volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden; 1. Colonialism, capitalism and the discourse of freedom Gyan Prakash; 2. The barriers to proletarianization: Bolivian mine labor, 1826?18 Erick D. Langer; 3. Labour, ecology and history in a Puerto Rican plantation region: 'classic' rural proletarianizations revisited Juan A. Giusti-Cordero; 4. Coal and colonialism: production relations in an Indian coalfield, c.1895?47 Dilip Simeon; 5. 'Capital spectacles in British frames': capital, empire and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean Madhavi Kale; 6. Unsettling the household: Act VI (of 1901) and the regulation of women migrants in colonial Bengal Samita Sen; 7. Sordid class, dangerous class? Observations on Parisian ragpickers and their Cit? during the nineteenth century Alain Faure; Notes on contributors.

Product details

• Authors: Shahid Amin, Shahid (University of Delhi) Van Der Linden Amin, Shahid Linden Amin
• Assisted by: Shahid Amin (Editor), Marcel van der Linden (Editor), Marcel van der Linden (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.1997
• EAN: 9780521589000
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58900-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: International Review of Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous