| Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood Contributor(s): Roy, Tirthankar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415349893 ISBN-13: 9780415349895 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: South Asia, hoe t a quarter of the world's workforce, has in recent years experienced economic growth and unprecedented levels of global integration. Despite this, there continues to be a large disparity in income. Rural poverty remains acute and extensive and manual laborers still constitute the majority of India's poor. br br i Rethinking Economic Change in India /i departs from the commonly used cultural approach to explain India's economic history, placing labor history in the context of economic change within the region. Roy examines the condition of rural labor, the transition in the economic position of women, the role of informal labor in Indian industry and the importance of labor-intensive industrialization. br br This highly original, though-provoking book will prove invaluable to students studying labor economics, economic history and economic history courses on India as well as for academics interested in the field. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 331.095 |
| LCCN: 2004023466 |
| Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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:
Challenging the prevailing wisdom on Indian economic growth - that it is bound up with Marxian, postcolonial class analysis - Roy formulates a new view. Commercialization, surplus labour and uncertainty are seen as equally important and the end result reconciles the increasingly opposed view of economists and historians. |