Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town Contributor(s): Parry, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138095591 ISBN-13: 9781138095595 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
Dewey: 007 |
Physical Information: 702 pages |
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Publisher Description: Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the 'structuration' of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called 'working class' has any realistic prospect of unity. |
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