UID:
almahu_9949406662902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003317227
,
1003317227
,
9781000805017
,
1000805018
,
9781000804966
,
1000804968
Content:
"The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire. With deep insights into everyday work practices of Indian and European contractors and manual labourers, the book establishes a bridge across the globe, between two poor regions as sites of extraction and industrial transformation, resulting from global migration and capital flows. Drawing on rich archival sources such as the Joseph Stephens Archive, Maharashtra State Archives, the National Archives of India, and the British Library, the book offers deep insights into everyday business practices of European contractors in India, which were rarely documented and have remained largely inaccessible so far. A unique look into the labour and entrepreneurship practices under British colonial rule in India, as well as its impact on the most transformative years of modern southern Scandinavia, the book will be of great interest to students, academics, and teachers of history, labour studies, subaltern studies, colonialism, imperialism, economic history, railways, economics, and Scandinavian and South Asian studies"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Imperial underbelly Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032320922
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003317227
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003317227
