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Producing workers : the politics of gender, class, and culture in the Calcutta jute mills / Leela Fernandes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical historiesPublication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.Description: xvi, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780812215977 (pbk.)
  • 0812233727 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0812215974 (paper : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.20477130954147 FER 23 005479
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Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Hegemonic Inventions of the "Working Class": The State, Unions, and Workers 3. Shop-floor Politics and the Production of the Labor Market 4. Manufacturing Community: Rituals of Hegemony and Resistance 5. Gender, Community, and the Making of a Worker's Public Sphere 6. Stories of Survival: Location, Difference, and the Identities of Women Workers 7. Conclusion: The Politics of Categories.
Summary: Using the jute mills of Calcutta as a case study, this book reveals that these interconnections play a fundamental role in shaping both the political actions of workers and the representation of their interests.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index.

1. Introduction
2. Hegemonic Inventions of the "Working Class": The State, Unions, and Workers
3. Shop-floor Politics and the Production of the Labor Market
4. Manufacturing Community: Rituals of Hegemony and Resistance
5. Gender, Community, and the Making of a Worker's Public Sphere
6. Stories of Survival: Location, Difference, and the Identities of Women Workers
7. Conclusion: The Politics of Categories.

Using the jute mills of Calcutta as a case study, this book reveals that these interconnections play a fundamental role in shaping both the political actions of workers and the representation of their interests.

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