LEADER 04250nam 2200529z- 450 001 9910585985803321 005 20221104181053.0 035 $a(CKB)5690000000026478 035 $a(EXLCZ)995690000000026478 100 $a20220809c2022uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlantation crisis$eruptures of dalit life in the indian tea belt. /$fJayaseelan Raj 210 $aLondon $cUCL Press$d2022 215 $a1 online resource. (xvi, 213 pages) 225 0 $aEconomic exposures in Asia 311 $a1-80008-231-2 327 $aPre-crisis: The making of moral order2 -- Workers: Stay on, move out -- Retirees: Failed attempt to stay on -- Youth: Hidden injuries of caste -- 'Dam'ned in dispute -- Crisis of relations -- Rumour and gossip in a time of crisis. -- New companies, new workforce -- The social consequences of crises. 330 $aWhat does the collapse of India's tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis offers a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Peermade and Munnar tea belts, Jayaseelan Raj - himself a product of the plantation system - offers a unique and richly detailed analysis of the profound, multi-dimensional sense of crisis felt by those who are at the bottom of global plantation capitalism and caste hierarchy. Tea production in India accounts for 25 per cent of global output. The colonial era plantation system - and its two million strong workforce - has, since the mid-1990s, faced a series of ruptures due to neoliberal economic globalisation. In the South Indian state of Kerala, otherwise known for its labour-centric development initiatives, the Tamil speaking Dalit workforce, whose ance$astors were brought to the plantations in the 19th century, are at the forefront of this crisis, which has profound impacts on their social identity and economic wellbeing. Out of the colonial history of racial capitalism and indentured migration, Plantation Crisis opens our eyes to the collapse of the plantation system and the rupturing of Dalit lives in India's tea belt. Praise for Plantation Crisis 'Raj's well-crafted ethnography offers profound and moving insight into the experience of Tamil Dalit plantation workers as they become alienated not just from their labour and its product, but from their families, communities, settlements and selves. An excellent read.' - Tania Li, University of Toronto 'An important, insightful and compelling story of the alienation of Tamil Dalit plantation workers, the disjuncture between economic and social mobility, the production of stigma and the role of caste and class, the failure of unions alongside that of the state and corporations, the destru$action of labour organisation yet the possibility of finding resistance. Not only a major contribution to the South Asian literature but also a decolonisation "must read".' - Alpa Shah, London School of Economics 606 $aTea plantations$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aTea plantation workers$zIndia$xEconomic conditions 606 $aTea plantation workers$zIndia$xSocial conditions 606 $aDalits$zIndia 606 $aTea trade$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aDalits$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00887187 606 $aTea plantation workers$xSocial conditions$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01144173 606 $aTea plantations$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01747829 606 $aTea trade$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01144179 607 $aIndia$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aTea plantations$xHistory. 615 0$aTea plantation workers$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aTea plantation workers$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aDalits 615 0$aTea trade$xHistory. 615 7$aDalits. 615 7$aTea plantation workers$xSocial conditions. 615 7$aTea plantations. 615 7$aTea trade. 676 $a331.7633720954 700 $aRaj$b Jayaseelan$01263288 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910585985803321 996 $aPlantation crisis$92960493 997 $aUNINA