Work and Social Change in Asia

Jan Breman's writings play an important role in the national and international debates on themes among researchers and policy makers. The present collection of essays reflects Breman's wide ranging interests. Asian and European scholars and friends discuss aspects of changing labour relations in South and South-East Asia. Topics include small farmers in Gujarat; IT specialists and Hindu nationalism; the local impact of the 1947 Partition on working people's livelihood; landlord credit in Philippine rice cultivation during the 1920s and 1930s; and the bloody repression of an Indian workers' festival in Trinidad in 1884.