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Author: Laura Bear
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780231140027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. She then traces their influence on the formation of contemporary Indian nationalism, personal sentiments, and popular memory. Her probing study challenges entrenched beliefs concerning the institutions of modernity and capitalism by showing that these rework older idioms of social distinction and are legitimized by forms of intimate, affective politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research in the company town at Kharagpur and at the Eastern Railway headquarters in Kolkata (Calcutta), Bear focuses on how political and domestic practices among workers became entangled with the moralities and archival technologies of the railway bureaucracy and illuminates the impact of this history today. The bureaucracy has played a pivotal role in the creation of idioms of family history, kinship, and ethics, and its special categorization of Anglo-Indian workers still resonates. Anglo-Indians were formed as a separate railway caste by Raj-era racial employment and housing policies, and other railway workers continue to see them as remnants of the colonial past and as a polluting influence. The experiences of Anglo-Indians, who are at the core of the ethnography, reveal the consequences of attempts to make political communities legitimate in family lines and sentiments. Their situation also compels us to rethink the importance of documentary practices and nationalism to all family histories and senses of relatedness. This interdisciplinary anthropological history throws new light not only on the imperial and national past of South Asia but also on the moral life of present technologies and economic institutions.
Author: Sanford M. Jacoby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0195089049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe international economy is a key factor shaping relations between employers, unions and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. This study reports how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make
Author: John Weber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1469625245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.
Author: Eric Steven Yellin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1469607204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the philosophy behind Woodrow Wilson's 1913 decision to institute de facto segregation in government employment, cutting short careers of Black civil servants who already had high-status jobs and closing those high-status jobs to new Black aspirants.
Author: Robert B. Reich
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307772993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book. What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders? What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that all its citizen have a share in the new global economy? Robert B. Reich, the widely respected and bestselling author of The Next American Frontier and The Resurgent Liberal, defines the real challenge facing the United States in the 21st century in this trail-blazing book. Original, readable, and vastly informed, The Work of Nations is certain to set a standard for the next generation of policy-makers.
Author: Marko Bojcun
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9004466304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBojcun analyses the efforts of Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian social democratic movements to address the national question in Ukraine during Russia’s industrialisation, the First World War, collapse of the autocracy and outbreak of the 1917 Revolution.
Author: Enrico Marcelli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1135219966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors of this volume take the orthodox view of 'informal work' and dismantle it piece by piece, presenting an analysis of the extent to which this phenomenon plays a significant role in developing countries across the world.
