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1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : some illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Work in global and historical perspective ; volume 2 |
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Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Contents |
1. Tea in the Colony -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Discovery of Tea and the Skills of Chinese Work -- 1.3. Framing Plantations and encounters with the Lazy Native Worker -- 1.4. Experimental Plantations and the search for Immobilised Worker -- 1.5. Privatising the discovery and the emergence of the Assam Company -- 1.6. Early Plantation enterprise and Kachari as the Ideal Worker -- 1.7. Assamese peasant as coolie labour -- 1.8. The Migrant Worker solution -- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Protection, Exceptionalism and the beginnings of the Assam Contract -- 2.3. The `Protection' of Private arrest and the construction of managerial authority -- 2.4. Assam Contract and the `Protection' of the Coolie -- 2.5. Act XIII and the Assam Contract(s) system -- 2.6. Contractors, Sardars and the Assam Contract System -- 2.7. Discourse of reform and the new contract regime -- 2.8. Practice of Free System -- 2.9. Free System in Surma Valley -- 2.10. Conclusions -- 3. Unpopular Assam -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Assam as a Lost World -- 3.3. Problems of Life and Work on the Tea Gardens -- 3.4. Songs and Oral Traditions of Tea Workers -- 3.5. Deception of Recruiters and the Fear of Assam -- 3.6. The `Choice' of Assam -- 3.7. Conclusions -- 4. Drink and Work -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Colonial Policy and Taxing the "Coolie Drink" -- 4.3. Drink as Work Stimulant -- 4.4. Industrial Tea, Intensification of Work and the Intoxicant Drink -- 4.5. Drink and the Emerging Working Culture -- 4.6. The Controls of Drink and Drinking Workers -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 5. Dustoor of Plantations -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Dustoor and Assam Tea Gardens in the late nineteenth century -- 5.3. The Shifting Authority of Manager -- 5.4. The Rice Question -- 5.5. The Occasions of Tea Garden -- 5.6. Coolie Lines -- 5.7. Work Place, Authority Structure and Issues of Tasks and Wages -- 5.8. Notions of Honour -- 5.9. Violence as Protest, Protest as Violence -- 5.10.A Collective Will to Leave -- 5.11. Conclusions -- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Situating the Episode -- 6.3. Markets and New Networks of Information -- 6.4. Anxieties of Colonial State and Nationalists -- 6.5. The Legitimacy of the Manager -- 6.6. Changing Practices of Work, Life and Control on Sylhet Plantations -- 6.7.A New Will to Leave -- 7. Epilogue. |
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Labor -- India -- History.
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Working class -- India -- History.
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Tea trade -- India -- Assam -- History.
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Travail -- Inde -- Histoire.
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Travailleurs -- Inde -- Histoire.
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Thé -- Commerce -- Inde -- Assam -- Histoire.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Labor
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Tea trade
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Working class
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India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC
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India -- Assam
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRmjC6vf6fmkGbjgpHbM
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9783110463170 |
| ISBN |
3110463172 (electronic bk.) |
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9783110463170 (electronic bk.) |
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3110461153 |
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9783110461152 |
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3110461285 |
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9783110461282 electronic publication electronic book |
| Standard No. |
9783110461152 |
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99970482633 |
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AU@ 000062532416 |
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