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Miners and Millhands
Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore
First Edition
- Janaki Nair - Madras Institute of Development Studies
July 1998 | 330 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
This pioneering work is a comparative study of the work processes, culture and politics of two major centres of industrial production in Princely Mysore - Bangalore and the Kolar Gold Fields - in the first half of the twentieth century. Janaki Nair develops a unique perspective on the relations of power and authority which were forged in a princely state under colonial rule.
Introduction
PART ONE: KOLAR GOLD FIELDS
Dangerous Labour
Visions of Plenitude in the Margins of Subsistence
Representing Labour
Political Worlds of Workers
PART TWO: BANGALORE
Production Regimes and Cultural Processes
Labouring Lives in the City
Learning to Strike
The Seductions of Nationalism
Conclusion
`This book is well written....It is a must for readers and students of South Asian labour history as well as comparitive history' - Contempory South Asia