Unfolding Crisis In Assam S Tea Plantations
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Unfolding Crisis In Assam S Tea Plantations
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Author : Deepak K. Mishra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-21
Unfolding Crisis In Assam S Tea Plantations written by Deepak K. Mishra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-21 with Business & Economics categories.
As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force. Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the extent, types and implications of inter-generational occupational mobility (or immobility) among tea garden labourers in Assam. In the process, it reflects on how even a sector that had brought capital and labour from outside and contributed significantly to the country’s export earnings failed to create dynamic growth linkages within the local economy. The experience of the labour force in the Assam tea sector, the authors argue, is important for making sense not only of the development dynamics of the region, but of the contradictory ways in which forces of globalisation and neo-liberal reforms have been reshaping the worlds of labourers in the margins. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, development studies, management studies, and studies of north-east India, as well as to policy-makers and those in the tea industry.
Coolies Of Capitalism
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Author : Nitin Varma
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Coolies Of Capitalism written by Nitin Varma and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
“Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for “mobilized-immobilized” labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated “coolies” in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the “production” of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and “producing” coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype’s emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes.
Status Of Women Working In The Tea Plantations
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Author : Elizabeth Kaniampady
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Status Of Women Working In The Tea Plantations written by Elizabeth Kaniampady and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Women tea plantation workers categories.
The Book Results Out Of An Empirical Study On The Status Of Women With Special Reference To The Women Working In The Tea Plantations. This Is A Maiden Anthropological Venture Among The Working Women In Assam Tea Planatations.
Plantation Crisis
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Author : Jayaseelan Raj
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Plantation Crisis written by Jayaseelan Raj and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Social Science categories.
What does the collapse of India’s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis offers a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Peermade and Munnar tea belts, Jayaseelan Raj – himself a product of the plantation system – offers a unique and richly detailed analysis of the profound, multi-dimensional sense of crisis felt by those who are at the bottom of global plantation capitalism and caste hierarchy. Tea production in India accounts for 25 per cent of global output. The colonial era planation system – and its two million strong workforce – has, since the mid-1990s, faced a series of ruptures due to neoliberal economic globalisation. In the South Indian state of Kerala, otherwise known for its labour-centric development initiatives, the Tamil speaking Dalit workforce, whose ancestors were brought to the plantations in the 19th century, are at the forefront of this crisis, which has profound impacts on their social identity and economic wellbeing. Out of the colonial history of racial capitalism and indentured migration, Plantation Crisis opens our eyes to the collapse of the plantation system and the rupturing of Dalit lives in India's tea belt.
Socio Economic And Political Problems Of Tea Garden Workers
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language : en
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Socio Economic And Political Problems Of Tea Garden Workers written by and has been published by Mittal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Contributed study on tea plantation workers in Assam, India.
Indigenous People And Nature
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Author : Uday Chatterjee
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2022-04-08
Indigenous People And Nature written by Uday Chatterjee and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today’s environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the foundations of human geography and its current research challenges, the intersections between environment and cultural diversity, addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology and environment management. Using theoretical and applied insights from local communities around the world, this book helps geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists, sociologists and urban planners tackle today’s environmental problems from new perspectives. Includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers Highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development Synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource
Globalisation Development And Plantation Labour In India
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Author : K. J. Joseph
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Globalisation Development And Plantation Labour In India written by K. J. Joseph and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Business & Economics categories.
This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the movement of labour away from this sector and the resultant labour shortage. It also highlights the perils involved in doing away with the Plantation Labour Act 1951 and provides a plausible way forward for improving the conditions of plantation workers. Rich in empirical analysis, this volume will prove essential for scholars and researchers of labour economics, development studies, gender studies and sociology.
Tea Garden Labourers Of North East India
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Author : Dutta Roy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Tea Garden Labourers Of North East India written by Dutta Roy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Adivasis categories.
Papers of a 1985 seminar jointly sponsored by the North-East India Council for Social Science Research and Sacred Heart Theological College, Shillong, India.
Agriculture And A Changing Environment In Northeastern India
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Author : Sumi Krishna
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-11-29
Agriculture And A Changing Environment In Northeastern India written by Sumi Krishna and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-29 with Social Science categories.
India’s northeastern region, forged by a unique geological history and peopled by several waves of migration, is extraordinarily complex. Farming systems in the hills and the riverine plains are embedded in a heterogeneous environment, comprising forests, wetlands and fields, shaped over centuries by nature and people. Today, the environment and economy are undergoing rapid transformation, affecting peoples’ lives, livelihoods and methods of food production. The essays in this volume bring a multi-disciplinary perspective to critical aspects of the process of agricultural change, examine the gender dimensions of agriculture, and explore initiatives for sustainable livelihood and ecological conservation. Part I analyses the impact of policies and people’s own aspirations on the closely-intertwined ecology and economy of the region. Part II discusses the gender dynamics of farming, forestry and biodiversity in a socio-cultural context where women are primarily responsible for food production. Part III highlights some alternative farming interventions and community-based efforts for environmental conservation, sustainable resource management and improved livelihoods. This book will be useful to scholars and students of agriculture, economics, development, environment and gender studies, and to those involved in policy analysis, natural resource management and community organisation, as also general readers interested in India’s northeastern region.
Theorizing Cohesive Development
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Author : Sunil Ray
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-05-07
Theorizing Cohesive Development written by Sunil Ray and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This volume proposes an alternative development paradigm to the existing capitalist extant one, and studies how it is distinctly different from the older system. Rooted in the principles of solidarity between humans, as well as between humans and nature, this alternative paradigm replaces the methodological individualism of capitalism by ‘reciprocal altruism’, a new logic of capital, to give pace and direction to the development process. The essays in this volume highlight instances of various forms of solidarity that have emerged in the contemporary world—such as resistance movements of informal workers, the formation of an autonomous cooperative of self-employed waste pickers in India, called SWaCH, and Brazil and Cuba’s experiments with Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)—to achieve long sustaining cohesive development. They also provide recommendations as to how the State can mold its development process to the benefit of marginalized communities, especially in India and Bangladesh. Featuring insights from leading experts in the field, Theorizing Cohesive Development will be an indispensable read for students and researchers of development studies, economics, political economy, political science and sociology, minority studies and Asian studies.