This book examines the forces responsible for the formation and shaping of the working class in the Indian steel industry under colonial rule and how these forces related to the struggles of the workers. The author challenges subalternist historiography and establishes that in order to understand working-class consciousness one needs to look into all the social, economic, political and historical forces, including culture, which influence the process of the formation of class consciousness.
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`Vinay Bahl offers a wide and refreshing discussion of the trials of colonial capitalism and, most particularly, the national industrial bourgeoisie's attempt to develop an industrial sector... Bahl's book should be highly recommended for those interested in imperial history, in the dynamics of global capitalism and in South Asian History' - Labour/Le Travail
`This really is a very good book indeed.... Bahl's own work is a splendid synthesis of bottom-up and top-down forms of history, using the Tata Iron and Steel Company as her exemplar.... Bahl offers us her own social background but she has transcended it in a passionate and dispassionate work of labour history' - Contemporary South Asia
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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978-0-8039-9187-3 (9780803991873)
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Foreword - Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Introduction
British Hegemony, the Empire and the Emergence of the Indian Steel Industry (1880-1907)
Formation of the TISCO Labour Force (1900-1920)
Role of Colonial, International and National Forces in the Growth of TISCO (1912-1946)
The Making of the TISCO Working Class
Emergence of the Trade Union (1920-1921)
The Making of the TISCO Working Class
Struggle for Recognition (1921-1925)
The Shaping of the TISCO Working Class
Split in the Movement (1927-1930)
The Shaping of the TISCO Working Class
Triumph of the Congress Party's Hegemony (1930-1946)
An Assessment of the Role of the Indian Capitalists, the Colonial State, and the Nationalist Leaders in the Making and Shaping of the TISCO Workers' Movement
