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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Among the dominant themes of modern history has been the social organization and political action of peasants and workers in the Third World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual millowners, jobber system, caste mandalis, perennial factories, piecegoods dealers, khoti tenure, most millowners, one millowner, same chawl, untouchable workers, standardization scheme, labour officer, line jobbers, stevedore firms, one mill manager, wage census, minimum wage schedule, cotton piecegoods, neighbourhood connections, overstocked labour market, finer varieties, labour deployment, rural connections, neighbourhood leaders, seasonal factories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Inquiry, Bombay Presidency, Tariff Board, Annual Report, Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Government of Bombay, Girni Kamgar Union, Fred Stones, Interim Inquiry, Fawcett Committee, General Wage Census, Labour Gazette, United Provinces, Bombay Industries, First World War, Presidency Gazetteer, Third Report, Chairman's Speech, City Table, District Magistrate, Private Investment, Government of India, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, North Indian, South Asia New!
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Among the dominant themes of modern history has been the social organization and political action of peasants and workers in the Third World. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual millowners, jobber system, caste mandalis, perennial factories, piecegoods dealers, khoti tenure, most millowners, one millowner, same chawl, untouchable workers, standardization scheme, labour officer, line jobbers, stevedore firms, one mill manager, wage census, minimum wage schedule, cotton piecegoods, neighbourhood connections, overstocked labour market, finer varieties, labour deployment, rural connections, neighbourhood leaders, seasonal factories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Inquiry, Bombay Presidency, Tariff Board, Annual Report, Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Government of Bombay, Girni Kamgar Union, Fred Stones, Interim Inquiry, Fawcett Committee, General Wage Census, Labour Gazette, United Provinces, Bombay Industries, First World War, Presidency Gazetteer, Third Report, Chairman's Speech, City Table, District Magistrate, Private Investment, Government of India, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, North Indian, South Asia New!
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- The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Eric Stokes on 5 pages
- Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty on 4 pages
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- A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Bina Agarwal in Back Matter
- Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 (Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi) by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar on page 1
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