Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood
Tirthankar Roy
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paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, 20 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 407.
As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers:
- economic history of modern India
- rural labour
- labour-intensive industrialization
- women and industrialization.
Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415459273
SKU
V9780415459273
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