Rethinking Working-Class History
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Anti-communism
Anti-Oedipus
Antonio Gramsci
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Capitalism
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Class conflict
Communism
Comrade
Cotton mill
Despotism
E. P. Thompson
Economics
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Eric Hobsbawm
Factory Acts
For Marx
Goonda
Grundrisse
Hartal
Henry Mayhew
ICAN
Imperialism
Intelligentsia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jute
Jute mill
Karl Marx
Khilafat Movement
Labor history (discipline)
Labor unrest
Laborer
Labour movement
Left-wing politics
Louis Althusser
Luddite
Mahatma Gandhi
Marx's theory of history
Marxian economics
Marxism
Maximum wage
Meerut Conspiracy Case
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Physiocracy
Proletarian revolution
Racism
Raphael Samuel
Recession
Robin Blackburn
Slavery
Strike action
Superiority (short story)
Supervisor
Swadeshi movement
Swami Vivekananda
The German Ideology
The Making of the English Working Class
The Other Hand
The Postmodern Condition
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Wear and tear
Work council
Workers and Peasants Party
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Wrongful dismissal
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- ISBN 9780691070308
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and their relationship to such Marxian categories as "capital," "proletariat," or "class consciousness." The book contributes to currently developing theories that connect Marxist historiography, post-structuralist thinking, and the traditions of hermeneutic analysis. Although Chakrabarty deploys Marxian arguments to explain the political practices of the workers he describes, he replaces universalizing Marxist explanations with a sensitive documentary method that stays close to the experience of workers and their European bosses.
He finds in their relationship many elements of the landlord/tenant relationship from the rural past: the jute-mill workers of the period were preindividualist in consciousness and thus incapable of participating consistently in modern forms of politics and political organization.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and History of Culture at the University of Chicago. From 1992 through 1995, he directed the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of the forthcoming Provincializing Europe.
