India's Labouring Poor
Author: Rana P. Behal
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9788175968349
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Author: Rana P. Behal
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9788175968349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan Breman
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith special reference to Gujarat, India.
Author: Primila Lewis
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccount of the author's experiences with the unorganized labor in Mahrauli Subdivision, south Delhi.
Author: Jan Breman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1108482414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the dispossessed from mainstream society.
Author: Indrajit Roy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1107117186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on diverse sorts of data and fieldwork in India, this book analyses how the poor participate in a democracy.
Author: Jan Breman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-09-13
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521568241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.
Author: Samita Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-05-06
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521453631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Author: K. L. Datta
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan Breman
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195663570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith special reference to Gujarat, India.
Author: Jonathan Pattenden
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780719089145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBehind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in a protracted conflict that determines the material conditions of one quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile, and often engaged in multiple occupations in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented, but far from passive in the face of ongoing processes of exploitation and domination. Drawing on detailed fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach that focuses on 'the poor's' iniquitous relations with others, and views class in terms of contested social relations rather than structural locations marked by particular characteristics. The book explores continuity and change amongst forms of accumulation, exploitation and domination in three interrelated arenas of class relations: labour relations, the state and civil society. Marginal gains for labour derived from structural change are contested by capital, local state institutions and state poverty reduction programmes tend to be controlled by the dominant class, and civil society organisations tend to reproduce rather than challenge the status quo. On the other hand, elements of state policy have the capacity to improve the material conditions of 'the poor' where such ends are actively pursued by labouring class organisations. It is argued that social policy currently provides the most fertile terrain for redistributing power and resources to the labouring class, and may clear the way for more fundamental transformations.