Rethinking Working-Class History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780691070308
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Manufacturing industries; Work & labour; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Social History; History; History - General History; History: World; India; Asia - India; Economic History; Business & Economics : Economic History; Economics; History / India; History : Social History; Jute industry workers; Postcolonial Studies; Sociology; Asia - India & South Asia
First sentence: If Marx gave the working class a special place and mission in history, it is also clear that he situated this class within a framework of bourgeois relationships.
Description: "In this study synthesizing cultural studies and labor history, Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940."--BOOK JACKET.