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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810464403321

Autore

Roy Tirthankar

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-27065-8

1-134-27066-6

1-280-30255-0

9786610302550

0-203-02310-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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