Description |
286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Series |
International review of social history. Supplement ; 14 |
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International review of social history. Supplement ; 14
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Contents |
Introduction / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya -- Working across the seas : Indian maritime labourers in India, Britain, and in between, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher -- The brickmakers' strikes on the Ganges Canal in 1848-1849 / Jan Lucassen -- On the move : circulating labour in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial India / Ian J. Kerr -- Mobility and containment : the voyages of South Asian seamen, c. 1900-1960 / Ravi Ahuja -- Power structure, discipline and labour in Assam tea plantations during colonial rule / Rana P. Behal -- "Following custom?" : representations of community among Indian immigrant labour in the West Indies, 1880-1920 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- Masculinity, respect, and the tragic : themes of proletarian humor in contemporary industrial Delhi / Shankar Ramaswami -- Stretching labour historiography : ideas from South Asia / Willem van Schendel -- War on the shopfloor / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar |
Notes |
Published for the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-286) |
Subject |
Labor -- India -- History.
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Working class -- India -- History.
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Author |
Behal, Rana Partap.
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Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-
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LC no. |
2007273278 |
ISBN |
0521699746 paperback |
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