The worlds of Indian industrial labour / edited by Jonathan P. Parry, Jan Breman, Karin Kapadia.

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TextSeries: Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ; 9Publication details: New Delhi : Sage Publications, 1999.Description: xxxvi, 442 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0761993959 (hbk.)

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Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan P. Parry 1. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India - The formal sector: An introductory review / Jan Breman 2. Work and resistance in the Jharia coalfield / Dilip Simeon 3. On living in the kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh / Christopher Pinney 4. Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai / Jonathan P. Parry 5. Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60 / Douglas E. Haynes 6. Hope and despair: Textile workers in Kanpur in 1937-38 and the 1990s / Chitra Joshi 7. Questions of class: The general strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 8. At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry / Samita Sen 9. The badli system in industrial labour recruitment: Managers' and workers' strategies in Calcutta's jute industry / Arjan de Haan. 10. Artisan labour in the Agra footwear industry: Continued informality and changing threats / Peter Knorringa 11. Gender ideologies and the formation of rural industrial classes in South India today / Karin Kapadia 12. Diamonds and Patels: A report on the diamond industry of Surat / Miranda Engelshoven 13. Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry / Geert de Neve 14. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India - The informal sector: A concluding review / Jan Breman.

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Papers presented at the Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour, Amsterdam, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jonathan P. Parry
1. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India - The formal sector: An introductory review / Jan Breman
2. Work and resistance in the Jharia coalfield / Dilip Simeon
3. On living in the kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh / Christopher Pinney
4. Lords of labour: Working and shirking in Bhilai / Jonathan P. Parry
5. Just like a family? Recalling the relations of production in the textile industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60 / Douglas E. Haynes
6. Hope and despair: Textile workers in Kanpur in 1937-38 and the 1990s / Chitra Joshi
7. Questions of class: The general strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
8. At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry / Samita Sen
9. The badli system in industrial labour recruitment: Managers' and workers' strategies in Calcutta's jute industry / Arjan de Haan.
10. Artisan labour in the Agra footwear industry: Continued informality and changing threats / Peter Knorringa
11. Gender ideologies and the formation of rural industrial classes in South India today / Karin Kapadia
12. Diamonds and Patels: A report on the diamond industry of Surat / Miranda Engelshoven
13. Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry / Geert de Neve
14. The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India - The informal sector: A concluding review / Jan Breman.

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