Coolies of capitalism : Assam tea and the making of coolie labour /
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| Author / Creator: | Varma, Nitin, author. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : some illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Work in global and historical perspective ; volume 2 Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 2. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Tea in the Colony -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Discovery of Tea and the Skills of Chinese Work -- 1.3. Framing Plantations and encounters with the Lazy Native Worker -- 1.4. Experimental Plantations and the search for Immobilised Worker -- 1.5. Privatising the discovery and the emergence of the Assam Company -- 1.6. Early Plantation enterprise and Kachari as the Ideal Worker -- 1.7. Assamese peasant as coolie labour -- 1.8. The Migrant Worker solution -- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Protection, Exceptionalism and the beginnings of the Assam Contract -- 2.3. The `Protection' of Private arrest and the construction of managerial authority -- 2.4. Assam Contract and the `Protection' of the Coolie -- 2.5. Act XIII and the Assam Contract(s) system -- 2.6. Contractors, Sardars and the Assam Contract System -- 2.7. Discourse of reform and the new contract regime -- 2.8. Practice of Free System -- 2.9. Free System in Surma Valley -- 2.10. Conclusions -- 3. Unpopular Assam -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Assam as a Lost World -- 3.3. Problems of Life and Work on the Tea Gardens -- 3.4. Songs and Oral Traditions of Tea Workers -- 3.5. Deception of Recruiters and the Fear of Assam -- 3.6. The `Choice' of Assam -- 3.7. Conclusions -- 4. Drink and Work -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Colonial Policy and Taxing the "Coolie Drink" -- 4.3. Drink as Work Stimulant -- 4.4. Industrial Tea, Intensification of Work and the Intoxicant Drink -- 4.5. Drink and the Emerging Working Culture -- 4.6. The Controls of Drink and Drinking Workers -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 5. Dustoor of Plantations -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Dustoor and Assam Tea Gardens in the late nineteenth century -- 5.3. The Shifting Authority of Manager -- 5.4. The Rice Question -- 5.5. The Occasions of Tea Garden -- 5.6. Coolie Lines -- 5.7. Work Place, Authority Structure and Issues of Tasks and Wages -- 5.8. Notions of Honour -- 5.9. Violence as Protest, Protest as Violence -- 5.10.A Collective Will to Leave -- 5.11. Conclusions -- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Situating the Episode -- 6.3. Markets and New Networks of Information -- 6.4. Anxieties of Colonial State and Nationalists -- 6.5. The Legitimacy of the Manager -- 6.6. Changing Practices of Work, Life and Control on Sylhet Plantations -- 6.7.A New Will to Leave -- 7. Epilogue. | |
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