Classes of labour: work and life in a Central Indian steel town

By:

Parry, Jonathan

Contributor(s):

G., Ajay T [Co-author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Social Science Press 2019 New DelhiDescription: xxx, 702 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:

9789383166343

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.110954137 P2C5

Summary: Classes Of Labour: Work And Life In A Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity. https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789383166343

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad General Stacks	Non-fiction	331.110954137 P2C5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		203478

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Table of content

PART 1: CONTEXT
1. Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent
2. Classes of Labour
3. Building Bhilai
4. The Price of Modernity

PART 2: WORK
5. A Post in the Plant
6. The Work Situation of BSP Labour
7. Private Sector Industry
8. Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class

PART 3: LIFE
9. Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood
10. Growing Up; Growing Apart
11. Marriage and Remarriage
12. Self-inflicted Death

PART 4: CONCLUDING
13. Focusing and Expanding the Lens

Classes Of Labour: Work And Life In A Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.

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