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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Shahid Amin, Shahid (University of Delhi) Van Der Linden Amin, Shahid Linden Amin
• Con la collaborazione di: Shahid Amin (Editore), Marcel van der Linden (Editore), Marcel van der Linden (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.05.1997
• EAN: 9780521589000
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58900-0
• Pagine: 184
• Serie: International Review of Social
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918