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Individual wage payments in India. The same event as ill. 4, but now from a distance, showing the large tent under which the payment takes place, as well as the hundreds of workers waiting.
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Payday of salt pan workers at Kharaghoda on the Rann of Kutch (Gujarat, Western India), 1919. Under the tent to the right and the left tables at which the British managers are seated, making sure...
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is the title of the new book by IISH’s honorary fellow Jan Breman. In this book Breman argues that the poor in India are getting more separated from the non-poor. The non-labouring poor are unable to...
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Colonising Plants in Bihar : Tobacco betwixt Indigo and Sugar Cane (1760-1900), het nieuwste boek van Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, is een loot aan de stam van het IISG onderzoeksproject Plants, People...
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A Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India - Jan Breman1. Constituting labour2. A Deficient Workforce3. Rejection of the Commitment Concept4. Factory Workers as Dominant Class in the Urban...
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Migration and Social Relations: an Annotated Bibliography on Temporary Migration for Rural Manual Work
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"Birds of Passage"; Migration of South Indian Labour Communities to South-East Asia; 19-20th Centuries, A.D.
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Wat de staking van textielarbeiders in Lal Kanpur, India (juni 1938) zo bijzonder maakte, was de solidariteit van vrouwen en kinderen. Vrouwen waren te vinden in demonstraties en stakersposten,...
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Op deze dag begon Mahatma Gandhi zijn vermaarde hongerstaking om te protesteren tegen het fenomeen van de onaanraakbaarheid. Aanleiding was het plan van de Britse autoriteiten om met het oog op de...
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