The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India :Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiSeries: Cambridge South Asian studies, 51Publication details: 2002. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University PressDescription: 489 pages 24cmISBN: 9780521525954Subject(s): Working class -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Cotton textile industry -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century.DDC classification: 305.5620954 CHA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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1. Problems and perspectives; 2. The setting: Bombay city and its hinterland; 3. The structure and development of the labour market; 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers; 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working class neighbourhoods; 6. The development of the cotton textile industry: a historical context; 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton textile industry; 8. Rationalizing work, standardizing labour: the limits of reform in the cotton textile industry; 9. Epilogue: workers politics, class caste and nation.
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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