Rethinking Working-Class History

"Refreshingly original. . . . The author's clarity and consistency of purpose force one to reflect on the problematic nature of working-class history and the difficulties involved in its conceptualization and writing. . . . Chakrabarty travels consistently and illuminatingly between the warp of theoretical proposition and woof of historical specificity."

Autorentext
Dipesh Chakrabarty

Klappentext
Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and their relationship to such Marxian categories as "capital," "proletariat," or "class consciousness." The book contributes to currently developing theories that connect Marxist historiography, post-structuralist thinking, and the traditions of hermeneutic analysis. Although Chakrabarty deploys Marxian arguments to explain the political practices of the workers he describes, he replaces universalizing Marxist explanations with a sensitive documentary method that stays close to the experience of workers and their European bosses. He finds in their relationship many elements of the landlord/tenant relationship from the rural past: the jute-mill workers of the period were preindividualist in consciousness and thus incapable of participating consistently in modern forms of politics and political organization.

Zusammenfassung
Combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. This book examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary"???' action from 1890 to 1940.

Inhalt
List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Abbreviations xix 1. Intoduction 3 2. Jute: The nature of the Industry 14 3. Of Conditions and Culture 65 4. The Paradox of Organization 116 5. Protest and Authority 155 6. Class and Community 186 7. Conclusion: Rethinking Working-Class History 219 Glossary 231 Bibliography 233 Index 243

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