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Regulation and resistance: defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941
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In this article, a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry (beedi rolling) in colonial South India is presented, where the implementation of the Indian Factories Act is examined.Abstract:
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act a...read more
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State Regulation and Class Struggle in the Beedi Industry of Post-Colonial Malabar, 1947–1970
TL;DR: In post-independence India, as in many developing post-colonial nations, the capitalist class was dependent on the state to discipline the laborforce, and the rapid uptake of capitalist production methods prompted the new government to intervene aggressively in industrial labor relations as mentioned in this paper .
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Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India. II: Employment in the Informal-Sector Economy
TL;DR: In the last half century, a large number of migrants from Third World countries have found work in the formal sector of the economy, however, only a small minority of them have found full-time employment.
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The Congress at the 1937 Elections in Madras
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Back to the factory: the continuing salience of industrial workplace history
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that factories remain significant sites of employment, crucial to capitalism, and scholars registered achievements in documenting their history, but since the late 1980s, and for a...
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Bidi ― A short history
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