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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar |
ISBN: | 9780511583551 0511583559 9780521414968 0521414962 |
OCLC Number: | 776979805 |
Notes: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 22 Dec 2011). |
Description: | 1 online resource (492 pages) |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Cambridge South Asian studies, no. 51. |
Responsibility: | Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. |
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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 "This is a work of great erudition." Reviews of Books Read more...


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- Working class -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century.
- Cotton textile industry -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century.
- Capitalism -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 20th century.
- Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions.
- Capitalism.
- Cotton textile industry.
- Economic history.
- Working class.
- India -- Mumbai.