Ravi Raman

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415551038
• ISBN-10: 041555103X
• Artikelnr.: 27380137

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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