The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940In this book, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labor and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the states' responses to them. The author also investigates how a labor force was formed in Bombay, its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organization and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies. |
Contents
Problems and perspectives | 1 |
The setting Bombay City and its hinterland | 21 |
The structure and development of the labour market | 72 |
Migration and the rural connections of Bombays workers | 124 |
Girangaon the social organization of the workingclass neighbourhoods | 168 |
The development of the cottontextile industry a historical context | 239 |
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The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the ... Rajnarayan Chandavarkar No preview available - 1994 |
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A.W. Pryde agrarian Ahmedabad Association BMOA Bombay City Bombay millowners Bombay mills Bombay Presidency Bombay Riots Bombay's workers BSEC Burnett-Hurst Byculla capital caste casual labour Census cent chawl city's cloth colonial competition Congress Cotton Mills cotton-textile industry dadas Deccan demand district earnings economy effect employed employers employment export factory File fluctuations Fred Stones Gazetteer Girni Kamgar Union Gujarat Home Sp Ibid IESHR increased increasingly Indian jobbers Konkan Kunbi Labour and Housing Labour Inquiry Committee labour market Labour Office Lancashire looms machinery Maharashtra Main Inquiry Marathas merchants migration Moreover Muslim neighbourhood nineteenth century occupations Oral Evidence output Parsi patterns Peasant piecegoods Police political Proceedings production rates rationalization Ratnagiri RCLI recruitment rent Sassoon social organization sometimes spinning standardization scheme strategies strike structure supply Tariff Board textile industry Textile Labour Inquiry TLIC trade unions urban village wage weavers weaving workforce working-class workplace yarn