Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 289 g
Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 289 g
Reihe: International Review of Social History Supplements
ISBN: 978-0-521-58900-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed producers. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
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Introduction Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden; 1. Colonialism, capitalism and the discourse of freedom Gyan Prakash; 2. The barriers to proletarianization: Bolivian mine labor, 1826-1918 Erick D. Langer; 3. Labour, ecology and history in a Puerto Rican plantation region: 'classic' rural proletarianizations revisited Juan A. Giusti-Cordero; 4. Coal and colonialism: production relations in an Indian coalfield, c.1895-1947 Dilip Simeon; 5. 'Capital spectacles in British frames': capital, empire and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean Madhavi Kale; 6. Unsettling the household: Act VI (of 1901) and the regulation of women migrants in colonial Bengal Samita Sen; 7. Sordid class, dangerous class? Observations on Parisian ragpickers and their Cités during the nineteenth century Alain Faure; Notes on contributors.
