Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788195639267)

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colonial present. Discussing when, why and how servitude originated on the tribal-peasant frontier in West India and was instituted in the rural landscape, this book draws on engagement in anthropological fieldwork from the 1960s onwards to offer a historical perspective on the collapse of bondage. The author argues that the globalized frame of capitalism does not allow for a transition to free labour in the world at large. Subjected to dispossession and to a lack of employment and income, a sizeable workforce at the bottom of the pile remains stuck in neo-bondage. A prologue to the book points out the different pathways imposed on labour by capital in the global North and South in the age of imperialism and neo-imperialism.

Author: Jan Breman
ISBN-10: 8195639267
ISBN-13: 9788195639267
Publisher: Tulika Books
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d