The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay Discourses and Practices /

• Main Author: Srivastava, Priyanka (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Labor-History.; Cities and towns-History.; Asia-History.; Sociology.; Civilization-History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Labor History.; Urban History.; Asian History.; Gender Studies.; Cultural History.

This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being. Focusing on the cotton millworkers in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book moves beyond trade union politics and examin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Political Economy of the Textile Industry and Its Labor
• 3. Industrial Housing and Sanitation Policies
• 4. Social Service, The Civic Ethic, and Labor Welfare
• 5. Welfare Rhetoric and Maternal Bodies: Protective Legislation Debates in Colonial Bombay
• 6. Childbirth, Childcare, and Women Millworkers
• 7. Epilogue.