Down and out: Labouring under Global Capitalism - Hardcover

Breman, Jan; Das, Arvind N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195653041 ISBN 13: 9780195653045

Publisher: OUP India, 2000

Synopsis

The tide of globalization and privatization that is sweeping across the globe often is often bad news for laborers, and their voices are little heard in the public discourse. This collection of fieldwork and photographs seeks to correct this imbalance. It presents snapshots from the lives of laborers in the Sarat region of India, showing workers in their villages, on the move, and at work in industries ranging from textiles and sugar to diamond-mining, brick-making, and construction. Combining stunning documentary work and rich anthropological research, the book paints a vivid and detailed portrait of modern laborers and the ways their lives are changing and not changing.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Breman is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and author of several books on Indian labour history. Parthiv Shah's camera has captured the lives of the people of Ahmedabad throughout the decades.

Synopsis

On the condition of workers in the informal sector like textile, diamond, sugar, brick making and construction in and around Surat, Gujarat.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195653041
• ISBN 13: 9780195653045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160