UID:
almahu_9949386206902882
Format:
1 online resource (733 pages)
ISBN:
9781351362849
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1351362844
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9780203712467
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0203712463
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9781351362856
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1351362852
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9781351362832
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1351362836
Content:
Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the structuration' of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called working class' has any realistic prospect of unity.
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11.2: Ankalu's errant wife
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary -- Part 1: Context -- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent -- 1.1: Preamble -- 1.2: A 'tragedy of development'? -- 1.3: An instantiation of the dream? -- 1.4: A short guide to the text -- Chapter 2: Classes of Labour -- 2.1: The temptations of teleology -- 2.2: On the concept of class -- 2.3: Citadel or mountain? -- 2.4: Naukri and kam -- 2.5: Jobs as property
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2.6: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 3: Building Bhilai -- 3.1: An Industrial 'monoculture' -- 3.2: Pioneer stories and the development of class differentiation -- 3.3: The space of the town -- 3.4: Peripheral bastis -- 3.5: Of settlers and sojourners -- 3.6: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Price of Modernity -- 4.1: Preamble -- 4.2: Displacement -- 4.3: Churning -- 4.4: In the happy world of the fields -- 4.5: Sacrifice -- 4.6: A summary conclusion -- Part 2: Work -- Chapter 5: A Post in the Plant -- 5.1: Framing -- 5.2: Recruitment and the reproduction of the workforce
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5.3: Reservations -- 5.4: Compassionate appointments -- 5.5: 'Source' and 'note' -- 5.6: Promotions -- 5.7: The size of the purse -- 5.8: Moonlighting -- 5.9: The status situation of BSP workers -- 5.10: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Work Situation of BSP Labour -- 6.1: Preamble -- 6.2: On the shop floor in the 1990s -- 6.3: Changes on the shop floor (2006) -- 6.4: Contract labour in the Plant -- 6.5: The working world of contract labour -- 6.6: Union politics in the Plant -- 6.7: The unions in the mines -- 6.8: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 7: Private Sector Industry -- 7.1: Framing
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7.2: Private industry and the public sector -- 7.3: The unions, the employers and the state -- 7.4: The Kedia unions -- 7.5: On the shop floor -- a case history -- 7.6: Differentiation -- 7.7: Demand labour -- 7.8: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 8: Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class -- 8.1: Framing -- 8.2: The character of construction labour -- 8.3: The labour chauris -- 8.4: Sex on site -- 8.5: Sex and class -- 8.6: A comparative note on recycling work -- 8.7: A summary conclusion -- Part 3: Life -- Chapter 9: Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood -- 9.1: Framing
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9.2: From village to labour colony -- 9.3: Livelihoods -- 9.4: Indebtedness -- 9.5: Conflict and violence in the neighbourhood -- 9.6: Class differentiation in the basti -- 9.7: Caste in the neighbourhood -- 9.8: Caste 'atrocities' -- 9.9: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 10: Growing Up -- Growing Apart -- 10.1: Preamble -- 10.2: The changed context of childhood -- 10.3: Childhood as a ticking clock -- 10.4: The work children do -- 10.5: Shalini's class -- 10.6: The end of childhood -- 10.7: Caste, class and childhood: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 11: Marriage and Remarriage -- 11.1: Framing
Additional Edition:
Print version: Parry, Jonathan. Classes of Labour : Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 ISBN 9781138095595
Language:
English
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