The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Co., 1880-1946 - Hardcover

Bahl, Vinay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803991878 ISBN 13: 9780803991873

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

This book examines the forces responsible for the formation and shaping of the working class in the Indian steel industry under colonial rule and how these forces related to the struggles of the workers. The author challenges subalternist historiography and establishes that in order to understand working-class consciousness one needs to look into all the social, economic, political and historical forces, including culture, which influence the process of the formation of class consciousness.

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Review

`Vinay Bahl offers a wide and refreshing discussion of the trials of colonial capitalism and, most particularly, the national industrial bourgeoisie's attempt to develop an industrial sector... Bahl's book should be highly recommended for those interested in imperial history, in the dynamics of global capitalism and in South Asian History' - Labour/Le Travail

`This really is a very good book indeed.... Bahl's own work is a splendid synthesis of bottom-up and top-down forms of history, using the Tata Iron and Steel Company as her exemplar.... Bahl offers us her own social background but she has transcended it in a passionate and dispassionate work of labour history' - Contemporary South Asia

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803991878
• ISBN 13: 9780803991873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432