Anna Sailer (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led to a rupture in worker’s relations in the workplace and beyond. Moving away from polarities such as class/culture or modernity/tradition and reconsidering the context around industrial conflicts in this period, Workplace relations in Colonial Bengal...
This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930...
