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Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again

The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India

Jan Breman

9788195639267

Tulika Books 2023

Language: English

220 Pages

6.25 x 9.5 Inches

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Price INR 950.0 Price USD 47.5

Book Club Price INR 712.5 USD 35.625

About the Book

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colonial present. Discussing when, why and how servitude originated on the tribal–peasant frontier in West India and was instituted in the rural landscape, this book draws on engagement in anthropological fieldwork from the 1960s onwards to offer a historical perspective on the collapse of bondage. The author argues that the globalized frame of capitalism does not allow for a transition to free labour in the world at large. Subjected to dispossession and to a lack of employment and income, a sizeable workforce at the bottom of the pile remains stuck in neo-bondage. A prologue to the book points out the different pathways imposed on labour by capital in the global North and South in the age of imperialism and neo-imperialism.

Jan Breman

Jan Breman is Professor Emeritus at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. His next book, Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, should be seen as an extension of this one and will be published by Amsterdam University Press early 2024.

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