Peripheral Labour: Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization

by Shahid Amin (Editor), Marcel van der Linden (Editor)

Overview

The contributors to this volume suggest that the idea of a "pure" working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through noneconomic means) or does hidden work (e.g. as formally self-employed producers). By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of "classical" labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a noneurocentric historiography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521589000
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/13/1997
Series:	International Review of Social History Supplements , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden; 1. Colonialism, capitalism and the discourse of freedom Gyan Prakash; 2. The barriers to proletarianization: Bolivian mine labor, 1826–1918 Erick D. Langer; 3. Labour, ecology and history in a Puerto Rican plantation region: 'classic' rural proletarianizations revisited Juan A. Giusti-Cordero; 4. Coal and colonialism: production relations in an Indian coalfield, c.1895–1947 Dilip Simeon; 5. 'Capital spectacles in British frames': capital, empire and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean Madhavi Kale; 6. Unsettling the household: Act VI (of 1901) and the regulation of women migrants in colonial Bengal Samita Sen; 7. Sordid class, dangerous class? Observations on Parisian ragpickers and their Cités during the nineteenth century Alain Faure; Notes on contributors.