| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2023]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps
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| Disciplina |
331.0948
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| Soggetto topico |
Labor - India
Labor - Scandinavia
Contractors - India
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'Gunnel Cederloef -- 2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway'Arun Kumar -- 3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'Radhika Krishnan -- 4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens' Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'Dhiraj Kumar Nite -- 5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western India'Dhiraj Kumar Nite -- 6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the British Empire'Eleonor Marcussen -- 7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'Erik Wangmar -- 8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'Malin Lennartsson -- Bibliography -- List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens Archives -- Index.
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| Altri titoli varianti |
Imperial Underbelly
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910619481203321 |
Info
The imperial underbelly : workers, contractors, and entrepreneurs in colonial India and Scandinavia / / Gunnel Cederlöf, editor