India's unfree workforce: of bondage old and new

1. Introduction: On Bondage: Old and New (Jan Breman and Isabelle Guerin) PART I AGRARIAN BONDAGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. After Slavery: Unfree Rural Labour in Post-1843 Eastern India (Jacques Pouchepadass) 3. Entrapped between Bondage and Freedom: Paraiyans and the Changing Fortunes of Agrestic Servitude in Colonial and Post-Colonial Tamil Nadu (Raj Basu) 4. Modern Bondage: Atiyaayma in Post-Abolition Malabar (K.T. Rammohan) 5. From Contract to Status (Prabhu Mahapatra) PART II CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF BONDAGE 6. Conceptualizing Continuity and Change in Emerging Forms of Labour Bondage in India (Ravi Srivastava) 7. Bondage in India: Representing the Past or the Present? The Case of the Dhanbad Coal Belt during the Eighties (Djallal Heuze) 8. Corridors of Migration and Chains of Dependence: Brick Kiln Moulders in Tamil Nadu (Isabelle Guerin, with the collaboration of Venkatasubramanian) 9. How (Un)Free are the Workers in the Labour Market: A Case Study of Brick Kilns (Aseem Prakash) 10. Neo-bondage, Seasonal Migration and Job Brokers: Cane Cutters in Tamil Nadu (Isabelle Guerin, Augendra Bhukhut, Kamala Marius-Gnanou, Venkatasubramanian) 11. "Workers, Trust Us!": Labour Middlemen and the Rise of the Lower Castes in Andhra Pradesh (David Picherit) 12. Bonded Labour in the Rice Mills: Fate or Opportunity? (Marc Roesch, Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guerin) 13. Unfree Labour in the Plantation System (Sharit K. Bhowmik) PART III THE URGENT NEED FOR LEGAL AND GLOBAL ACTION 14. Bonded Labour and the Courts (Kamala Sankara) 15. A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-liberal Globalization, and the International Labour Organization (Jens Lerche) Notes on Contributors Index