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The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940

Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan.

Year: 2002, c1994.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Glossary

Map 1 Western India, 1931

Map 2 Municipal wards and districts of Bombay City, 1931

1 Problems and perspectives

2 The setting: Bombay City and its hinterland

3 The structure and development of the labour market

4 Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers

5 Girangaon: the social organization of the working-class neighbourhoods

6 The development of the cotton-textile industry: a historical context

7 The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton-textile industry

8 Rationalizing work, standardizing labour: the limits of reform in the cotton-textile industry

9 Epilogue: workers' politics - class, caste and nation

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

The origins of industrial capitalism in India : business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.

Author:

Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan

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The origins of industrial capitalism in India : business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900-1940 Rajnarayan Chandavarkar.
Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan
Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2002, c1994.

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Subject Headings:

• Cotton textile industry -- India -- Bombay -- History -- 20th century
• Capitalism -- India -- Bombay -- History -- 20th century
• Working class -- India -- Bombay -- History -- 20th century
• Bombay (India) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century

Notes:

• Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Originally published: 1994.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

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