The Labour Process in the Bombay Handloom Industry, 1880-1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3630780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas E Haynes (Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-45 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x07002806 |
| OpenAlex | W2148153183 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Analyses of capital-labour relations in Indian industry during the colonial period have generally been confined to studies of large-scale units. This essay turns to an examination of the organization of the workplace among handloom producers in the Bombay Presidency during the period between 1880 and 1940. While recognizing the importance of contradictions between weaving families and various kinds of capitalists, the essay eschews any straightforward model of "proletarianization" to characterize this relationship. Weavers possessed methods of resistance, particularly "everyday" actions, which thwarted efforts to impose tight regimes of labour discipline within the workshop. Seeking to contain these resistances, shahukars (putting-out merchants) and karkhandars (owners of establishments using wage labour) developed complex social relationships with their workers based upon patronage, debt, and caste. Consequently, collective protest in the industry was limited, and when it did emerge in Sholapur during the later 1930s, it was highly conditioned and constrained by the multiple lines of affiliation weavers had with karkhandars
Capital (architecture · Caste · Colonialism · Debt · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletarianization · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Wage · Weaving · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2015 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |