Jan Breman (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India

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Produktbeschreibung

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the dispossessed from mainstream society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781108482417
• ISBN-10: 1108482414
• Artikelnr.: 55312020

Autorenporträt

Jan Breman is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Emeritus Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is the author of many publications, including Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy (1996), for which he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book prize by School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Labour as Codified in Annals of the State: 1. The country liberated
2. An end to servitude?
Part II. Constrained in Decrepitude: 3. The commodification of agricultural labour
4. The class struggle launched and suppressed
5. The Gandhian road to inclusion
Part III. The Political Economy of Boundless Dispossession: 6. The Agrarian Question posed as the social question
7. Labour migration: going off and coming back
8. Indebtedness as labour attachment
Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Capitalism, labour bondage and the social question.