The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class: Sliding Down to the Bottom of the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India - Hardcover

Breman, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9053566465 ISBN 13: 9789053566466

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book, based in part on a continuing survey of hundreds of households, charts the progressive disenfranchisement of textile workers in the Indian city of Ahmedabad through the 1980s and 1990s elaborating dimensions of poverty often neglected by statistics alone. It also examines the religious fault lines of the community, which exploded into riots in spring 2002. The crises of Ahmedabad can also be found in Asia at large, where a lack of social provisions can allow entire communities to sink below the poverty line. Breman's book—along with its companion volume, Working in the Mill No More—give us as accurate and penetrating a portrait of this process as we could wish for.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Breman is emeritus professor of comparative sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

Review:

'Jan Breman has spent his own life celebrating those of labourers and teaching us of their exploitation and oppression. In his latest tour de force, he tracks the unravelling of an organised labour force - one of liberalisation's 'gifts' to India - and reveals the social fault lines cracking open in Gujarat as a result. A book of the first importance.'[-][-]Barbara Harriss-White[-]Professor of Development Stuides[-]Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9053566465
• ISBN 13: 9789053566466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320