Peripheral Labour
Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
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Part of International Review of Social History Supplements
- Editors:
- Shahid Amin, University of Delhi
- Marcel van der Linden, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam
- Date Published: June 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589000
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This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed producers. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
Read more- Takes an alternative look at the notion of wage-workers
- Works towards the formulation of a non-Eurocentric historiography
- Considers a number of third-world case studies from South Asia and Latin America
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- Date Published: June 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589000
- length: 184 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.285kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden
1. Colonialism, capitalism and the discourse of freedom Gyan Prakash
2. The barriers to proletarianization: Bolivian mine labor, 1826–1918 Erick D. Langer
3. Labour, ecology and history in a Puerto Rican plantation region: 'classic' rural proletarianizations revisited Juan A. Giusti-Cordero
4. Coal and colonialism: production relations in an Indian coalfield, c.1895–1947 Dilip Simeon
5. 'Capital spectacles in British frames': capital, empire and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean Madhavi Kale
6. Unsettling the household: Act VI (of 1901) and the regulation of women migrants in colonial Bengal Samita Sen
7. Sordid class, dangerous class? Observations on Parisian ragpickers and their Cités during the nineteenth century Alain Faure
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