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22 produkter
Labour Bondage in West India
From Past to Present
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 2007
736 kr
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On the basis of his new fieldwork done in south Gujarat between 2004 and 2006, Jan Breman critically analyses the historical roots of the ongoing subordination of the rural poor in what has come to be recognised as a booming economy.
Social Question in the Twenty-First Century
A Global View
Av Jan Breman, Kevan Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” …
Patronage and Exploitation
Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India
Av Jan Breman
Häftad, 1974
447 kr
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Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India delves into the evolving relationships between landowners and landless laborers in rural India, focusing on the Anavil Brahmans and the Dublas in South Gujarat. Despite significant urbanization, India remains a …
Patronage and Exploitation
Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 1974
1190 kr
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Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India delves into the evolving relationships between landowners and landless laborers in rural India, focusing on the Anavil Brahmans and the Dublas in South Gujarat. Despite significant urbanization, India remains a …
Remembering Partition
Violence, Nationalism and History in India
Av Gyanendra Pandey, Jan Breman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
435 kr
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Through an investigation of the violence that marked the partition of British India in 1947, this book analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalisation of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered (or forgotten) in order to ensure the unity of the …
India Working
Essays on Society and Economy
Av Barbara Harriss-White, Jan Breman m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
557 kr
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By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature, Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, the …
Population, Gender and Politics
Demographic Change in Rural North India
Av Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
732 kr
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Roger and Patricia Jeffery are well known for their work on religion and gender in South Asia. In their latest book, a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, they ask why fertility levels are higher among the Muslim Sheikhs than the Hindu Jats. They conclude that …
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Häftad, 1995
569 kr
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In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and …
The Untouchables
Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
Av Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
606 kr
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In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in …
Footloose Labour
Working in India's Informal Economy
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 1996
1723 kr
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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual …
Footloose Labour
Working in India's Informal Economy
Av Jan Breman, Jan Breman m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
770 kr
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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual …
Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
Av Rob Jenkins, Jan Breman m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
687 kr
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Successive Indian governments, from right and left, have remained committed to market-oriented reform since its introduction in 1991. In a well-argued, accessible and sometimes controversial examination of the political dynamics which underlie that commitment, Rob Jenkins challenges existing …
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice
Av Jan Breman
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local …
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market
Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
Av Jan Breman
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book …
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 2019
1502 kr
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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as …
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
Av Jan Breman
E-bok, 2019
439 kr
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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as …
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
Av Jan Breman
E-bok, 2019
454 kr
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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as …
Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
Av Jan Breman
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as …
Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politi – India′s Injurious Frame of Communalism
Inbunden, 2022
454 kr
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Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again – The Social History of Bondage and Neo–Bondage of Labour in India
The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 2024
351 kr
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Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 2024
2588 kr
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In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to 'faraway, indigenous peoples', but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well.
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market
Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
Av Jan Breman
Inbunden, 2015
2588 kr
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This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.
