India's labouring poor: historical studies, c.1600-c.2000

Recent years have witnessed a renewed scholarly interest in the historical studies of labour in India and other parts of the world. Apart from the study of the industrial workforce, labour history has been enriched by the scholarly attention to migratory, mobile labour, lives of artisans, women and...

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Other Authors: Behal, Rana Partap (Editor), Linden, Marcel van der 1952- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Foundation Books 2007
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:Recent years have witnessed a renewed scholarly interest in the historical studies of labour in India and other parts of the world. Apart from the study of the industrial workforce, labour history has been enriched by the scholarly attention to migratory, mobile labour, lives of artisans, women and peasant migrants to plantations within India and overseas. Earlier the major emphasis of labour history research was on the core countries such as US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Now research on the labour history of the capitalist peripheries is growing and is increasingly attracting international scholarship
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages)
ISBN:9788175968349

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