Description
| Product ID: | 9781108482417 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India |
| Authors: | Author: Jan Breman |
| Page Count: | 298 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, Industrialisation and industrial history, Sociology: work and labour, Labour / income economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Economic history, Industrialisation & industrial history, Sociology: work & labour, Labour economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Economic history, India, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 2000 to c 2010, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the dispossessed from mainstream society. Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India''s agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-08-15 |
