The origins of industrial capitalism in India : business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 / / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Chandavarkar Rajnarayan
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994
• Edizione: 1st pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 468 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.5/62/09547923
• Soggetto topico: Working class - India - Mumbai - History - 20th century; Cotton textile industry - India - Mumbai - History - 20th century; Capitalism - India - Mumbai - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Mumbai (India) Economic conditions
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-457) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Map 1 Western India, 1931 -- Map 2 Municipal wards and districts of Bombay City, 1931 -- 1. Problems and perspectives -- 2. The setting: Bombay City and its hinterland -- 3. The structure and development of the labour market -- 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers -- 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working-class neighbourhoods -- 6. The development of the cotton-textile industry: a historical context -- 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton-textile industry -- 8. Rationalizing work, standardizing labour: the limits of reform in the cotton-textile industry -- 9. Epilogue: workers' politics -- class, caste and nation.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the state's responses to them. The author also investigates how a labour force was formed in Bombay - its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organisation and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies. In a subject dominated by the assumption of unities, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar convincingly demonstrates the fragmentation of class, on the side of both capital and labour. Their interaction sometimes exacerbated their internal differences. But, the author also asks on what terms, to what ends, and under what circumstances solidarities could be forged between workers.
• Titolo autorizzato: The origins of industrial capitalism in India
• ISBN: 0-511-09819-7; 0-511-58355-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247970303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge South Asian studies ; ; 51.