1st Edition
Rethinking Economic Change in India Labour and Livelihood
By Tirthankar Roy
Copyright 2005
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 modern India
rural labour
labour-intensive... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Economic History of Modern India 3. Economic History of Modern India: Defining the Link 4. Rural Labour and 'De-Peasantization' 5. Rural Labour: Lessons of Wage Data 6. Was there an Industrial Decline in the early Nineteenth Century? 7. Labour-Intensive Industrialization 8. Women and Industrialization 9. Conclusion
Biography
Tirthankar Roy
