In this book, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labor and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the states' responses to them. The author also investigates how a labor force was formed in Bombay, its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organization and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies.
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"It is a rich, complex, interactive, and fearsomely variable world of labor through which the author skillfully leads us....What makes this an excellent history is the degree of detail incorporated into his story which so enriches its telling....One can almost feel the heat and pulse of living human beings. Such anchoring in life makes history more than theories and analyses which appear to 'manage' the past and protect us from 'over' generalization. At the same time, the author has drawn sound conclusions from analyses based on an impressive foundation of primary source materials....a superb study of an example of industrial development during the first half of this century. Chandavarkar has written a masterful history." George E. Moore, The Historian
"Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's book furthers our understanding of the evolution of Bombay from an insignificant settlement on swampy, inhospitable islands to its current position as the financial capital of India." American Historical Review
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"Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's book furthers our understanding of the evolution of Bombay from an insignificant settlement on swampy, inhospitable islands to its current position as the financial capital of India." American Historical Review
"This is a work of great erudition." Reviews of Books
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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.
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oral evidence, rural labour, perennial factories, spinning side, cotton mill workers, cultural revolt, depressed classes, land revenue, municipal commissioner, labour question, census commissioners, standardizing labour, caste mandalis, khoti tenure, same chawl, jobber system, individual millowners, most millowners, piecegoods dealers, untouchable workers, standardization scheme, line jobbers, one mill manager, one millowner, stevedore firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Inquiry, Bombay Presidency, Labour Office, Annual Report, Bombay City, Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Cotton Mills, Government of Bombay, Industrial Labour Force, Girni Kamgar Union, Tariff Board, Interim Inquiry, Fred Stones, Commissioner of Police, Western India, Labour Gazette, General Wage Census, Presidency Gazetteer, Third Report, Fawcett Committee, Bombay Industries, City Table, Chairman's Speech, Textile Industries, Private Investment Browse Sample Pages:
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oral evidence, rural labour, perennial factories, spinning side, cotton mill workers, cultural revolt, depressed classes, land revenue, municipal commissioner, labour question, census commissioners, standardizing labour, caste mandalis, khoti tenure, same chawl, jobber system, individual millowners, most millowners, piecegoods dealers, untouchable workers, standardization scheme, line jobbers, one mill manager, one millowner, stevedore firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Inquiry, Bombay Presidency, Labour Office, Annual Report, Bombay City, Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Cotton Mills, Government of Bombay, Industrial Labour Force, Girni Kamgar Union, Tariff Board, Interim Inquiry, Fred Stones, Commissioner of Police, Western India, Labour Gazette, General Wage Census, Presidency Gazetteer, Third Report, Fawcett Committee, Bombay Industries, City Table, Chairman's Speech, Textile Industries, Private Investment Browse Sample Pages:
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