Globalizing Labour?

Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, C. 1870-1945
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-807884-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed account of development of shipping industry and
economic life in the subcontinent-ship owners and their organizations, voyages and destinations, private intermediaries, city and port life, industrial and commercial centres, and colonial economic policies. The author also evaluates the position of India in the world economy in the period of late
capitalism and high imperialism, interweaving the mutually reinforcing contexts of colonialism and globalization.

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, labour studies, and economics.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history and economics, particularly those working on maritime labour and shipping.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balachandran, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Origins and Expansion
2: Recruitment and Control, c. 1860s-1930s
3: Itineraries, Work, and Voyages
4: Arrivals and Departures
5: Sojourners, Settlers, Peddlers, and Prisoners
6: Protest, Resistance, and Transformations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

G. Balachandran is Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.