Striking Back: A history of COSATU

White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa

Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150 years. He sets arguments about growth, development and underdevelopment, and the impact of imperialism, against a detailed history of agriculture, trade and manufacture, and the relations between business, the economy and the state. The new edition extends the coverage right up to the present day, and explains how one of the largest countries in the world has sought to achieve economic progress and lasting development, despite institutional weaknesses, rigid structures of political and social hierarchy, and the legacy of colonialism.

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The Economy of Modern India

Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid

List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Select glossary 1. The study and its perspectives Part I. Changing Conditions and Experiences in Interwar North India: 2. The poor in the urban setting 3. Urban local policies and the poor 4. Urban policing and the poor Part II. Modes of Political Action and Perception: 5. Untouchable assertion 6. Militant Hinduism 7. Resurgent Islam 8. Nationalist action 9. Congress socialist mobilisation 10. The politics of exclusion and the 'virtuous deprived' Bibliography Index.

The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India: Urban local policies and the poor

The article resurfaces ‘tacit knowledge’ to periodise developments in worker safety in South African mines. ‘Tacit knowledge’ evolved over time, is orally transmitted, learned on the job, and is central to worker safety; it lay behind acts of resistance and demands for a safer mining workplace which underpinned unionisation, and which won worker safety representation under apartheid. Under democracy, a modern consultative tripartite legislative safety regime was instituted. With worker representation institutionalised, health and safety legislation enacted and tripartite institutions established, procedural compliance eclipsed workers’ ‘tacit knowledge’. The right to refuse to do dangerous work, state-initiated safety work stoppages and the impact on safety of inter-union rivalry are currently in the spotlight and are noted below. With the state firmly in neoliberal mode post-Fordism, this article concludes by noting the emergence of the individualisation of safety – ironically motivated by a beha...

From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism: worker safety on South African mines, c.1955–2016

During 1895–1970, in the Indian coalfield of Jharia, circular migration of the mineworker coexisted along with the fact that workers became regular over time. This article suggests that the...

Employee benefits, migration and social struggles: an Indian coalfield, 1895–1970

This article explains the way mineworkers negotiated workplace hazards and articulated their ideas of safety. Mineworkers increasingly attained mining sense and made use of it, thereby surviving te...

Negotiating the Mines: The Culture of Safety in the Indian Coalmines, 1895–1970:

This article offers an answer to the question as to why the movement to ensure a ‘civilised’, human life for mineworkers in the Jharia coalfields in eastern India, in the early decades of the twentieth century, had some ‘unsought for’ results. These results included the vulnerability of women excluded from certain categories of work, school-dropout children and above all absence of a reproductive support system. Industrialists as well as the industrial workforce slowly braced themselves to devise the means for satisfying reproduction requirements of the principal component of the workforce. The resultant reproduction regime, representing a shift to industrial paternalism, took effect within the matrix of mineworkers’ new reproduction politics, the competition between different categories of mineworkers, and their access to social and political power. On family and women questions, the familist discourse became the site of contestation between various ideas and practices that represented different responses to the need to reconstitute the reproduction regime in the industrial space.

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Familist Movement and Social Mobility The Indian Colliers (Jharia) 1895–1970

Why did workers bargain for a specific amount of wage? This was an expression of reproduction preferences of workers rather than merely any demand and supply calculation. This article brings out how the mineworkers evinced their post-traditional economic propensity, as it was in contradistinction to the ‘subsistence ethic’, in wage negotiations and work efforts. Mineworkers articulated the economic propensity upon the message derived from the self-respect campaign and respectable tastes of consumption. Their economic propensity was an excess for capital’s ‘iron law of wage’. Mineworkers interrogated the latter, and graduated to play the game of wage-work with the rules of struggles for a minimum living wage for a human, ‘civilized’ life. This concept of the minimum living wage represented mineworkers’ new reproduction preferences, the compensation for the loss of supplementary earnings and their awareness of a mismatch between their work-efforts and their earnings. This article takes the historiography of...

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From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism: worker safety on South African mines, c.1955–2016

Employee benefits, migration and social struggles: an Indian coalfield, 1895–1970

Negotiating the Mines: The Culture of Safety in the Indian Coalmines, 1895–1970:

Familist Movement and Social Mobility The Indian Colliers (Jharia) 1895–1970

Reproduction Preferences and Wages: The Mineworker in Jharia Coalfields, 1895–1970: