Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsiste...

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1. Verfasser:	Breman, Jan 1936- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
Schlagworte:	Peonage / India / History Labor policy / India / History Working poor / India / History Capitalism / India / History Armut Kapitalismus Arbeitsmarktpolitik Leibeigenschaft Indien
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Zusammenfassung:	Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jul 2019)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 286 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108687485
DOI:	10.1017/9781108687485