Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India - Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940

Klappentext The first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. Zusammenfassung The first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. The author considers the spread of capitalism and the growth of the cotton textile industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Problems and perspectives; 2. The setting: Bombay city and its hinterland; 3. The structure and development of the labour market; 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers; 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working class neighbourhoods; 6. The development of the cotton textile industry: a historical context; 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton textile industry; 8. Rationalizing work, standardizing labour: the limits of reform in the cotton textile industry; 9. Epilogue: workers politics, class caste and nation.

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• Authors: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan (University of Cambridge) Chandavarkar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521525954
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52595-4
• No. of pages: 492
• Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous