Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India
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Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colonial present. Discussing when, why and how servitude originated on the tribal-peasant frontier in West India and was instituted in the rural landscape, this book draws on engagement in anthropological fieldwork from the 1960s onwards to offer a historical perspective on the collapse of bondage. The author argues that the globalized frame of capitalism does not allow for a transition to free labour in the world at large. Subjected to dispossession and to a lack of employment and income, a sizeable workforce at the bottom of the pile remains stuck in neo-bondage. A prologue to the book points out the different pathways imposed on labour by capital in the global North and South in the age of imperialism and neo-imperialism.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:8195639267
ISBN13:9788195639267
Release Date:February 2024
Publisher:Tulika Books
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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