Classes of labour : work and life in a central indian steel town / Jonathan Parry (in collaboration with Ajay T.G.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parry, Jonathan P., author.

Ajay, T. G., author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bhilai Steel Plant.

Working class--India--Bhilai--Social conditions.

Working class.

Steel industry and trade--India--Bhilai.

Steel industry and trade.

Social classes--India--Bhilai.

Social classes.

Employees--Economic conditions.

Employees--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Working class--Social conditions.

Bhilai Steel Plant--Employees--Social conditions.

Bhilai Steel Plant--Employees--Economic conditions.

Employees.

Economic conditions.

Bhilai (India)--Social conditions.

Bhilai (India).

India--Bhilai.

Physical Description:

xxx, 702 pages : illustrations, 3 maps; 23 cm

Other Title:

Classes of labor : work and life in a central indian steel town

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 CONTEXT

1. Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent

1.1. Preamble

1.2. A'tragedy of development?

1.3. An instantiation of the dream?

1.4. A short guide to the text

2. Classes of Labour

2.1. The temptations of teleology

2.2. On fife concept of class

2.3. Citadel or mountain?

2.4. Naukri and kam

2.5. Jobs property

2.6. A summary conclusion

3. Building Bhilai

3.1. An Industrial' monoculture

3.2. Pioneer stories and the development of class differentiation

3.3. The space of the town

3.4. Peripheral bastis

3.5. Of settlers and sojourners

3.6. A summary conclusion

4. The Price of Modernity

4.1. Preamble

4.2. Displacement

4.3. Churning

4.4. In The Happy World of the fields

4.5. Sacrifice

4.6. A summary conclusion

pt. 2 WORK

5. A Post in the Plant

5.1. Framing

5.2. Recruitment and the reproduction of the workforce

5.3. Reservations

5.4. Compassionate appointments

5.5. `Source' and `note'

5.6. Promotions

5.7. The size of the purse

5.8. Moonlighting

5.9. The status situation of BSP workers

5.10. A summary conclusion

6. The Work Situation of BSP Labour

6.1. Preamble

6.2. On the shop floor in the 1990s

6.3. Changes on the shop floor (2006)

6.4. Contract labour in the Plant

6.5. The working world of contract labour

6.6. Union politics in the Plant

6.7. The unions in the mines

6.8. A summary conclusion

7. Private Sector Industry

7.1. Framing

7.2. Private industry and the public sector

7.3. The unions, the employers and the state

7.4. The Kedia unions

7.5. On the shop floor

- a case history

7.6. Differentiation

7.7. Demand labour

7.8. A summary conclusion

8. Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class

8.1. Framing

8.2. The character of construction labour

8.3. The labour chauris

8.4. Sex on site

8.5. Sex and class

8.6. A comparative note on recycling work

8.7. A summary conclusion

pt. 3 LIFE

9. Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood

9.1. Framing

9.2. From village to labour colony

9.3. Livelihoods

9.4. Indebtedness

9.5. Conflict and violence in the neighbourhood

9.6. Class differentiation in the basti

9.7. Caste in the neighbourhood

9.8. Caste atrocities'

9.9. A summary conclusion

10. Growing Up; Growing Apart

10.1. Preamble

10.2. The changed context of childhood

10.3. Childhood as a ticking clock

10.4. The work children do

10.5. Shalini's class

10.6. The end of childhood

10.7. Caste, class and childhood: A summary conclusion

11. Marriage and Remarriage

11.1. Framing

11.2. Ankalu's errant wife

11.3. The `virgin bride and the `made woman'

11.4. Breaking the marriage bond: Some `quantitative gossip'

11.5. BSP and the stability of marriage

11.6. Conjugality and the growth of intimacy

11.7. The burdens of women

11.8. A summary conclusion

12. Self-inflicted Death

12.1. Framing

12.2. Local discourse on suicide

12.3. The statistical fog

12.4. On the causes of `causes'

12.5. Suicide and the law

12.6. A summary conclusion

pt. 4 CONCLUDING

13. Focusing and Expanding the Lens

13.1. Framing

13.2. Stocktaking

13.3. The contrast with Rourkela

13.4. In other company towns

13.5. Naukri and kam in Other settings.

Notes:

"Social Science Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0367510324

9780367510329

9781138095595

1138095591

OCLC:

1141152471

Publisher Number:

99987267333