“Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay's Late Colonial Textile Industry

This article examines the business strategies employed by early twentieth-century Bombay mill owners in work organization and wage differentiation. The traditionally highly segmented and fluctuating domestic textile markets in India were further complicated by colonial free trade policies, making th...

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Veröffentlicht in:International review of social history Jg. 70; H. S33; S. 161 - 192
Hauptverfasser: van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise, Dixit, Aditi
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.04.2025
ISSN:0020-8590, 1469-512X
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