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Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
Rethinking Economic Change in India Labour and Livelihood - Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Author: Tirthankar Roy
As author of the hugely influential The Economic History of India 1857-1947, Tirthankar Roy has established himself as the leading contemporary economic historian of India. Here, Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Subcontinent. This book covers: —
  • economic history of...  more »
  • rural labour
  • labour-intensive industrialization
  • women and industrialization.


Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view of economists and historians.
ISBN-13: 9780415459273
ISBN-10: 0415459273
Publication Date: 9/17/2007
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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