India's Unfree Workforce
Of Bondage Old and New
Published on 29. January 2009
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-19-569846-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume makes a distinction between agrarian bondage as it existed in the past and the contemporary practices of bondage in various branches of the economy. It suggests that the analysis for bonded labour cannot be disassociated from a broader analysis related to the whole landscape of labour. The emergence of neo-bondage is strongly connected to the reinforcement of the informalization of labour relationships as well as the intensification of circulation and labour migration. Neo-bondage is strongly connected to the increased monetization of commodity exchanges and of social relationships, as well as the development of mass consumption. The authors do not accept the proposition that labour bondage is likely to disappear when economic growth is sustained at its current rate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-569846-6 (9780195698466)
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Content
1. Introduction: On Bondage: Old and New (Jan Breman and Isabelle Guerin) PART I AGRARIAN BONDAGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. After Slavery: Unfree Rural Labour in Post-1843 Eastern India (Jacques Pouchepadass); 3. Entrapped between Bondage and Freedom: Paraiyans and the Changing Fortunes of Agrestic Servitude in Colonial and Post-Colonial Tamil Nadu (Raj Basu); 4. Modern Bondage: Atiyaayma in Post-Abolition Malabar (K.T. Rammohan); 5. From Contract to Status (Prabhu Mahapatra); PART II CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF BONDAGE 6. Conceptualizing Continuity and Change in Emerging Forms of Labour Bondage in India (Ravi Srivastava); 7. Bondage in India: Representing the Past or the Present? The Case of the Dhanbad Coal Belt during the Eighties (Djallal Heuze); 8. Corridors of Migration and Chains of Dependence: Brick Kiln Moulders in Tamil Nadu (Isabelle Guerin, with the collaboration of Venkatasubramanian); 9. How (Un)Free are the Workers in the Labour Market: A Case Study of Brick Kilns (Aseem Prakash); 10. Neo-bondage, Seasonal Migration and Job Brokers: Cane Cutters in Tamil Nadu (Isabelle Guerin, Augendra Bhukhut, Kamala Marius-Gnanou, Venkatasubramanian); 11. "Workers, Trust Us!": Labour Middlemen and the Rise of the Lower Castes in Andhra Pradesh (David Picherit); 12. Bonded Labour in the Rice Mills: Fate or Opportunity? (Marc Roesch, Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guerin) 13. Unfree Labour in the Plantation System (Sharit K. Bhowmik) PART III THE URGENT NEED FOR LEGAL AND GLOBAL ACTION 14. Bonded Labour and the Courts (Kamala Sankara); 15. A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-liberal Globalization, and the International Labour Organization (Jens Lerche); Notes on Contributors; Index