Rethinking Economic Change in India - Labour and Livelihood

Informationen zum Autor Tirthankar Roy Klappentext As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers: economic history of modern India rural labour labour-intensive industrialization women and industrialization. Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view of economists and historians. Zusammenfassung Tirthankar Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Indian Subcontinent, challenging prevailing wisdom and formulating new views. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Economic History of Modern India 3. Economic History of Modern India: Defining the Link 4. Rural Labour and 'De-Peasantization' 5. Rural Labour: Lessons of Wage Data 6. Was there an Industrial Decline in the early Nineteenth Century? 7. Labour-Intensive Industrialization 8. Women and Industrialization 9. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Tirthankar Roy, Tirthankar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Develo Roy, Roy Tirthankar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2005
• EAN: 9780415349895
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34989-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, Economic history, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, HISTORY / Asia / South / General