The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class: Sliding down the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India - Hardcover

Breman, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9053566465 ISBN 13: 9789053566466

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Based on a survey of over 600 households over the 1999-2002 period, this monograph charts the progressive disenfranchisement of Ahmedabad's textile workers and their families throughout the 1980s and 90s. Challenging the myth of the infinite absorption capacity of the informal sector, the author elaborates on the dimensions of poverty often neglected in studies based on statistics alone. Like the companion photobook title, the monograph also examines the significance of religious fault lines in the community, which exploded into riots in spring 2002. The Ahmedabad crisis, typical of the textile industry in India, can also be found in Asia at large, where entire communities sink below poverty line in the absence of social provisions. Co-published with Oxford University Press, India

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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.

From the Back Cover

Een wetenschappelijke analyse van het ineenstorten van de textielindustrie in Ahmedabad

Gebaseerd op een onderzoek naar meer dan 600 Indiase huishoudens tussen '999 en 2002, brengt deze monografie de armoedeval in kaart van Ahmedabads textielarbeiders en hun families in de jaren '80 en '90 van de vorige eeuw. Dit boek ontmaskert de mythe van de oneindige opnamecapaciteit van de informele sector en gaat in op die aspecten van armoede die in statistische onderzoeken vaak onderbelicht blijven. Net als in het bijgaande fotoboek over dit onderwerp is er uitgebreid aandacht voor de religieuze breuklijnen in de Indiase samenleving, die in voorjaar 2002 uitmondden in hevige rellen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9053566465
• ISBN 13: 9789053566466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320