Download or read book The Labouring Poor in India written by Jan Breman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Gujarat, India.
Download or read book India s Labouring Poor written by Rana P. Behal and published by Cambridge India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Years Have Witnessed A Renewed Interest In The Historical Studies Of Labour In India. In The Context Of Globalization, The Prospects Of India As Major Manufacturing Hub And A Prime Destination For Outsourcing Services Have Become Prominent. This Has Pushed The Question Of Labour To The Centre Stage. The Concerns Of This New Labour History Are Not Confined To The Traditional Working Class Alone. Much Attention Is Also Paid To Migrants And The Persistent Phenomenon Of Labour Mobility: Indentured Labourers And Issues Of Free And Unfree Labour. It Also Addresses The Issues Of The Self-Employed And Process Of Informalisation Of Labour. Contemporary Labour Historians Are Now Giving More Attention To Pre-Colonial And Pre-Industrial Indian Labour History. This Volume Seeks To Showcase Some Of The Significant Research Inspired By These Developments. This Collection Is Dedicated To The Memory Of Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, One Of The Foremost Indian Labour Historians, Who Died Unexpectedly In April 2006.
Download or read book Social Action and the Labouring Poor written by Primila Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the author's experiences with the unorganized labor in Mahrauli Subdivision, south Delhi.
Download or read book Annals of the Labouring Poor written by K. D. M. Snell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levels of employment, wage rates, welfare relief, sexual divisions of labor, apprenticeship patterns and seasonal economic fluctuations are included in this reassessment of the standard of living of rural labor during this period of England's industrialization.
Download or read book Capitalism Inequality and Labour in India written by Jan Breman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan 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.
Download or read book At Work in the Informal Economy of India written by Jan Breman and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With labour being pushed out of agriculture, Jan Breman analyses why, when, and how the massive shift in production and employment came about. The book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the past and present path of capitalism and dwells on the abominable condition of theunorganized workforce and the commodification of labour, familiarizing the reader with the concept of informality and its ramifications. The second part, a compilation of well-established, critical readings in the field by the author, elaborates on themes and issues introduced in the first part ofthe book. Drawing upon detailed field accounts and a critique of the informal sector at both analytical and empirical levels, the author examines different aspects of the labour regime that, in the past decades, has become dominant in the world at large, with serious consequences for the labouringpoor in India.
Download or read book Down and Out written by Jan Breman and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the condition of workers in the informal sector like textile, diamond, sugar, brick making and construction in and around Surat, Gujarat.
Download or read book Footloose Labour written by Jan Breman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Download or read book The Working Poor in India written by K. Sundaram and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweatshop Regimes in the Indian Garment Industry written by Alessandra Mezzadri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analyses the politics of production and labour control characterizing the Indian readymade garment industry since its entry into the global arena"--
Download or read book The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth Century India written by Nandini Gooptu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.
Download or read book The Poverty Regime in Village India written by Jan Breman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with special reference to landless labourers.
Download or read book Classes of Labour written by Jonathan Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.
Download or read book India Labour and Employment Report 2014 written by Institute for Human Development (New Delhi, India) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the first of a series of biennial publications by the Institute for Human Development and the Indian Society of Labour Economics. It provides an overview of the labor market and employment outcomes that the Indian economy has delivered as it globalized. Rapid economic growth in India over the last quarter century has reduced extreme poverty and modestly improved the quality of life of a large segment of the population. However, large employment deficits remain: most jobs created are of poor quality and low productivity in the informal economy. Further, the gains from growth have been distributed unevenly. Growing inequalities and vulnerabilities have generated widespread insecurity of livelihoods and highlighted weaknesses in prevailing social protection systems. This report concludes that structural changes are slow and difficult, and the potential for equitable growth remains unrealized, hampered by policy inertia, resistance from social and economic interests and rigidities of existing systems and perspectives. The report assesses the gains and losses for labor in the first round of globalization and reveals many markers of progress as well as deep challenges. Effective, responsive, fair, and comprehensive labor and employment policy is vital for sustainable and inclusive development: this is the central message of this report.
Download or read book Labour State and Society in Rural India written by Jonathan Pattenden and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind 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.
Download or read book Problems of Child Labour in India written by Raj Kumar Sen and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of papers presented at the conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Jammu.
Download or read book Facets of Indian Poverty written by K. L. Datta and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
