Rethinking Economic Change in India

Labour and Livelihood
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-34989-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers:

- economic history of modern India

- rural labour

- labour-intensive industrialization

- women and industrialization.

Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view of economists and historians.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Tirthankar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Economic History of Modern India 3. Economic History of Modern India: Defining the Link 4. Rural Labour and 'De-Peasantization' 5. Rural Labour: Lessons of Wage Data 6. Was there an Industrial Decline in the early Nineteenth Century? 7. Labour-Intensive Industrialization 8. Women and Industrialization 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Tirthankar Roy