Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plant

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This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

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This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and uses the World Systems theory so as to demonstrate the practical utility of the theory and its limitations as a guide to historical research. Based on extensive archival research, the book interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism by focusing on the work, life and struggle of the dalits on plantations in colonial and post-colonial South India as they evolved from the mid-19th century. It argues that these elements of the plantation life-world were fashioned by the specific characteristics of the workers' location within the capitalist world-economy, the then prevailing local social structure and the scheme of disciplining to which the workers were subjected to. Treating the relations among various social forces – the planting communities, the oppressed communities (dalits in India), the regional and national state, and the Imperial regime, this book fills a gap in academic literature on capitalism, economic development, and globalization.

Author Biography

K. Ravi Raman is a labour historian and political economist currently based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK. He formerly held the Hallsworth Research Fellowship in the same department (2005-08) and the South Asia Visiting fellowship at the Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (1999), and is the editor of Development, Democracy and the State, Routledge, forthcoming 2010.

Table of Contents

1. Premises 2. Periphery in the Making 3. Capital(s) in Conflict and Consensus: The British Plantocracy versus the Provincial Bourgeoisie 4. Plantation Worker-Families: Sources, Social Origins and Gender Divisions 5. Slaves Reborn? The Disciplinary-Punishment Regime 6. Global Accumulation, Local Immiserisation 7. Identities, Historical Consciousness and Conflicts 8. The Post-colonial State: Re-alignment in Power Relations? 9. Colonial Legacy, Neo-liberal Predicaments and Peripheral Labour: Concluding Remarks

Review

"Global Capital and Peripheral Labour fills a gap that existed earlier on the subject of plantation labor and is a welcome and useful entry to the literature." - Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University

Review Quote

"With a strong footing in extensive archival sources and theory, Raman accomplishes his task successfully."- -P. Sanal Mohan, InterUniversity Centre for Social Science Research and Extension, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India.

Details ISBN0415627397 Author Ravi Raman Short Title GLOBAL CAPITAL & PERIPHERAL LA Language English ISBN-10 0415627397 ISBN-13 9780415627399 Media Book Format Paperback Affiliation University of Manchester, UK Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-03-29 Imprint Routledge Subtitle The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 288 UK Release Date 2012-03-29 AU Release Date 2012-03-29 NZ Release Date 2012-03-29 Illustrations 27 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series Alternative 9780367895068 DEWEY 331.7630954 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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