Coolies of capitalism : : Assam tea and the making of Coolie labour / / Nitin Varma.
"Coolie" is a generic category for the "unskilled" manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for "mobilized-immobili...
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| Superior document: | Work in global and historical perspective ; volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : De Gruyter,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | German English |
| Series: | Work in global and historical perspective ;
v. 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Tables and Graphs
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Tea in the Colony
- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies
- 3. Unpopular Assam
- 4. Drink and Work
- 5. Dustoor of Plantations
- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum
- 7. Epilogue
- Bibliography