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Rethinking economic change in India: labour and livelihood

Roy, Tirthankar (2007) Rethinking economic change in India: labour and livelihood. Routledge explorations in economic history. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415459273

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Abstract

The primary questions being addressed by economic historian Roy in this general history of labor-intensive occupations in South Asia circa 1870-1970--focusing on rural labor, artisans, and women workers--are the factors that account for poverty of manual workers and conditions that enable attempts to escape from poverty. His approach, rather than focus on "overly political" issues such as colonialism and repression, explains the issues with reference to the balance between natural resources and labor and diminishing returns to labor. However, he argues, the marketization of labor encourages attempts to "break out of poverty and raise returns to labor by reallocating work between places, occupations and places.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.routledge.com/
Additional Information: © 2007 Routledge
Divisions: Economic History
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2008 13:39
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:43
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/12238

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