Anthony Cox

Empire, Industry and Class

The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two regional economies - one in an imperial country and the other in a colonial one.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415506168
• ISBN-10: 0415506166
• Artikelnr.: 34006911

Autorenporträt

Anthony Cox is currently involved in teaching at the Centre of Continuing Education at Dundee University, UK. His research interests include comparative labour history and eighteenth century Scottish radicalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The making and re
making of the imperial nexus of jute, 1840
1940 2. The coming of the up
countrymen: labour conditions and classformation in the Bengal jute industry, 1875
1910 3. The making of Juteopolis and the imperial nexus of jute, 1875
1910 4. Working class militancy and labor politics in Juteopolis, 1885
1923 5. Challenging the jute wallahs: Non
Co
operation, communism and the Marwaris, 1918
30 6. The imperial nexus and labor politics in Dundee during the 1920s 7. The breaking of the Dundee
Calcutta nexus, 1930
40 8. Conclusion