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Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India

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By (author): Jan Breman

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 subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781108482417

About Jan Breman

Jan Breman is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social History Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is the author of many publications including Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy (1996) for which he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book prize by School of Oriental and African Studies University of London.

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