The worlds of Indian industrial labour

Introduction - Jonathan P Parry The Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India - The Formal Sector - Jan Breman An Introductory Review Work and Resistance in the Jharia Coalfield - Dilip Simeon On Living in the Kal(i)yug - Christopher Pinney Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh Lords of Labour - Jonathan Parry Working and Shirking in Bhilai Just Like a Family? Recalling Relations of Production in the Textile Industries of Surat and Bhiwandi, 1940-60 - Douglas E Haynes Hope and Despair - Chitra Joshi Textile Workers in Kanpur in 1937-38 and the 1990s Questions of Class - Rajnarayan Chandavarkar The General Strikes in Bombay, 1928-29 At the Margins - Samita Sen Women Workers in the Bengal Jute Industry The Badli System in Industrial Labour Recruitment - Arjan de Haan Managers' and Workers' Strategies in Calcutta's Jute Industry Artisan Labour in the Agra Footwear Industry - Peter Knorringa Continued Informality and Changing Threats Gender Ideologies and the Formation of Rural Industrial Classes in South India Today - Karin Kapadia Diamonds and Patels - Miranda Engelshoven A Report on the Diamond Industry of Surat Asking For and Giving Baki - Geert de Neve Neo-Bondage, or the Interplay of Bondage and Resistance in the Tamilnadu Power-Loom Industry The Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India - The Informal Sector - Jan Breman A Concluding Review