Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960
Author:   Douglas E. Haynes (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   20
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9781316649800


Pages:   361
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960


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Author:   Douglas E. Haynes (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781316649800


ISBN 10:   1316649806
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The historical and global contexts of artisan production; 2. Consumers, merchants, and markets; 3. Artisanal towns; 4. The organization of production; 5. Small town capitalism and the living standards of artisans; 6. The colonial state and the handloom weaver; 7. The paradox of the Long 1930s; 8. Weaver capitalists and the politics of the workshop, 1940–60.

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'Douglas E. Haynes has provided one of the most interesting recent accounts of the history of labor in modern India.' H-Soz-u-Kult


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Douglas E. Haynes is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He is the author of Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852–1928 (1991), and co-editor of Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia (1992) with Gyan Prakash and of Toward a History of Consumption in South Asia (2010) with Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy and Haruka Yanagisawa.

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