Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870–1945

A Roundtable Response

Bibliographic Data

ID12123778
AuthorsGopalan Balachandran (0000-0002-6045-7470)
Year2013
Volume25
Issue1
Pages315-321
Publication date2013-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueInternational Journal of Maritime History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0843-8714 • E-ISSN: 2052-7756
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/084387141302500114
OpenAlexW180842864
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed account of development of shipping industry and economic life in the subcontinent-ship owners and their organizations, voyages and destinations, private intermediaries, city and port life, industrial and commercial centres, and colonial economic policies. The author also evaluates the position of India in the world economy in the period of late capitalism and high imperialism, interweaving the mutually reinforcing contexts of colonialism and globalization. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, labour studies, and economics

Biology · Control (management · Domestic work · Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Index (typography · Management · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Work (physics · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Maritime Security and History · Ecology

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