| Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood Contributor(s): Roy, Tirthankar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415459273 ISBN-13: 9780415459273 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 331.095 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.69 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| 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. |