Coolies of capitalism : Assam tea and the making of coolie labour /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varma, Nitin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017]
Colección:Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 2.
Temas:
Labor > India > History.
Working class > India > History.
Tea trade > India > Assam > History.
Travail > Inde > Histoire.
Travailleurs > Inde > Histoire.
Thé > Commerce > Inde > Assam > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > General.
Labor.
Tea trade.
Working class.
India.
India > Assam.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Tea in the Colony
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Discovery of Tea and the Skills of Chinese Work
  • 1.3. Framing Plantations and encounters with the Lazy Native Worker
  • 1.4. Experimental Plantations and the search for Immobilised Worker
  • 1.5. Privatising the discovery and the emergence of the Assam Company
  • 1.6. Early Plantation enterprise and Kachari as the Ideal Worker
  • 1.7. Assamese peasant as coolie labour
  • 1.8. The Migrant Worker solution
  • 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Protection, Exceptionalism and the beginnings of the Assam Contract
  • 2.3. The `Protection' of Private arrest and the construction of managerial authority
  • 2.4. Assam Contract and the `Protection' of the Coolie
  • 2.5. Act XIII and the Assam Contract(s) system
  • 2.6. Contractors, Sardars and the Assam Contract System
  • 2.7. Discourse of reform and the new contract regime
  • 2.8. Practice of Free System
  • 2.9. Free System in Surma Valley
  • 2.10. Conclusions
  • 3. Unpopular Assam
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Assam as a Lost World
  • 3.3. Problems of Life and Work on the Tea Gardens
  • 3.4. Songs and Oral Traditions of Tea Workers
  • 3.5. Deception of Recruiters and the Fear of Assam
  • 3.6. The `Choice' of Assam
  • 3.7. Conclusions
  • 4. Drink and Work
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Colonial Policy and Taxing the "Coolie Drink"
  • 4.3. Drink as Work Stimulant
  • 4.4. Industrial Tea, Intensification of Work and the Intoxicant Drink
  • 4.5. Drink and the Emerging Working Culture
  • 4.6. The Controls of Drink and Drinking Workers
  • 4.7. Conclusions
  • 5. Dustoor of Plantations
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Dustoor and Assam Tea Gardens in the late nineteenth century
  • 5.3. The Shifting Authority of Manager
  • 5.4. The Rice Question
  • 5.5. The Occasions of Tea Garden
  • 5.6. Coolie Lines
  • 5.7. Work Place, Authority Structure and Issues of Tasks and Wages
  • 5.8. Notions of Honour
  • 5.9. Violence as Protest, Protest as Violence
  • 5.10.A Collective Will to Leave
  • 5.11. Conclusions
  • 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Situating the Episode
  • 6.3. Markets and New Networks of Information
  • 6.4. Anxieties of Colonial State and Nationalists
  • 6.5. The Legitimacy of the Manager
  • 6.6. Changing Practices of Work, Life and Control on Sylhet Plantations
  • 6.7.A New Will to Leave
  • 7. Epilogue.

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