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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450693303321

Autore

Roy Tirthankar

Titolo

Rethinking economic change in India : labour and livelihood / / Tirthankar Roy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-27066-6

1-280-30255-0

9786610302550

0-203-02310-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 28

Disciplina

331.0954

Soggetti

Labor - India - History

Women - Employment - India - History

Electronic books.

India Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Economic History and Modern India: Redifining the Link; 3. Rural Labour and Colonialism; 4. Agricultural Labour: Lessons from Wage Data; 5. Was there an Industrial Decline in India in the Early Nineteenth Century?; 6. Labour-intensive Industrialization; 7. Women and Industrialization; 8. Women in the Crafts; 9. Labour and Power: A Critique of 'Subaltern Studies'; 10. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers:economic history of modern India rural labour labour-intensive industrialization women and industrialization.Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815215703321

Titolo

Mitigating droughts and floods in agriculture : policy lessons and approaches / / OECD

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, [France] : , : OECD Publishing, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (76 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

OECD Studies on Water, , 2224-5081

Disciplina

631.7

Soggetti

Water-supply, Agricultural - Management

Drought management

Floodplain management

Climatic changes

Sustainable agriculture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694358803321

Titolo

Oversight hearing on the administration of the Veterans Benefits Administration's pension program : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, September 27, 2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 25 p.)

Soggetti

Military pensions - United States - Evaluation

Disabled veterans - Pensions - United States - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia