Peripheral Labour

Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization

Shahid Amin, Marcel van der Linden (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

1997
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-58900-0 (ISBN)

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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. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, this volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.

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.

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; Notes on contributors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.1997
Reihe/Serie	International Review of Social History Supplements
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	285 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-58900-2 / 0521589002
ISBN-13	978-0-521-58900-0 / 9780521589000
Zustand	Neuware