Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India

ISBN-13: 9780415551038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Ravi Raman

Opis

This study presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

Recenzje

"With a strong footing in extensive archival sources and theory, Raman accomplishes his task successfully."-

-P. Sanal Mohan, InterUniversity Centre for Social Science Research and Extension, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India.

Spis treści

1. Premises  2. Periphery in the Making  3. Capital(s) in Conflict and Consensus: The British Plantocracy versus the Provincial Bourgeoisie  4. Plantation Worker-Families: Sources, Social Origins and Gender Divisions  5. Slaves Reborn? The Disciplinary-Punishment Regime  6. Global Accumulation, Local Immiserisation  7. Identities, Historical Consciousness and Conflicts  8. The Post-colonial State: Re-alignment in Power Relations?  9. Colonial Legacy, Neo-liberal Predicaments and Peripheral Labour: Concluding Remarks

O autorze

K. Ravi Raman is a labour historian and political economist currently based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK. He formerly held the Hallsworth Research Fellowship in the same department (2005-08) and the South Asia Visiting fellowship at the Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (1999), and is the editor of Development, Democracy and the State, Routledge, forthcoming 2010.