Takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers' and contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
The contributors to this volume suggest that the idea of a "pure" working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through noneconomic means) or does hidden work (e.g. as formally self-employed producers). By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of "classical" labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a noneurocentric historiography.
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Takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers' and contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
Shahid Amin Marcel van der Linden Introduction 1(8) Gyan Prakash Colonialism, Capitalism and the Discourse of Freedom 9(18) Erick D. Langer The Barriers to Proletarianization: Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826-1918 27(26) Juan A. Giusti-Cordero Labour, Ecology and History in a Puerto Rican Plantation Region: Classic Rural Proletarians Revisited 53(30) Dilip Simeon Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947 83(26) Madhavi Kale Capital Spectacles in British Frames: Capital, Empire and Indian Indentured Migration to the British Caribbean 109(26) Samita Sen Unsettling the Household: Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal 135(22) Alain Faure Sordid Class, Dangerous Class? Observations on Parisian Ragpickers and their Cites During the Nineteenth Century 157(20) Notes on Contributors 177
