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  • Globalizing Labour?: Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945

    Globalizing Labour? by Balachandran, G.;

    Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP India
    • Date of Publication 8 March 2012

    • ISBN 9780198078845
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 219x145x27 mm
    • Weight 514 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 22 black and white illustrations
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    Short description:

    This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers, and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial period. It provides a detailed account of the social and individual lives of Indian seafarers; development of shipping industry; and economic life in the subcontinent.

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    Long description:

    This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed account of development of shipping industry and economic life in the subcontinent-ship owners and their organizations, voyages and destinations, private intermediaries, city and port life, industrial and commercial centres, and colonial economic policies. The author also evaluates the position of India in the world economy in the period of late capitalism and high imperialism, interweaving the mutually reinforcing contexts of colonialism and globalization.

    This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, labour studies, and economics.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Origins and Expansion
    Recruitment and Control, c. 1860s-1930s
    Itineraries, Work, and Voyages
    Arrivals and Departures
    Sojourners, Settlers, Peddlers, and Prisoners
    Protest, Resistance, and Transformations
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index.

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