Peripheral Labour
Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
Published on 13. May 1997
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Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-521-58900-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-58900-0 (9780521589000)
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Content
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 Cites during the nineteenth century Alain Faure; Notes on contributors.