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



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Autore: Roy Tirthankar Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rethinking economic change in India : labour and livelihood / / Tirthankar Roy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
Disciplina: 331.0954
Soggetto topico: Labor - India - History
Women - Employment - India - History
Soggetto geografico: India Economic policy
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
Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking economic change in India  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-27065-8
1-134-27066-6
1-280-30255-0
9786610302550
0-203-02310-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810464403321
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Serie: Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 28.