{"product_id":"fighting-free-to-become-unfree-9788195639267","title":"Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Breman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8195639267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788195639267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tulika Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Jan Breman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44159176900863,"sku":"9788195639267","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_532f94f6-970b-4396-8ee5-6c898421b227.jpg?v=1689081064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fighting-free-to-become-unfree-9788195639267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}