The imperial underbelly workers, contractors, and entrepreneurs in colonial India and Scandinavia
"The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and tie...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York :
Taylor & Francis
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'Gunnel Cederloef
- 2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway'Arun Kumar
- 3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'Radhika Krishnan
- 4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens' Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'Dhiraj Kumar Nite
- 5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western India'Dhiraj Kumar Nite
- 6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the British Empire'Eleonor Marcussen
- 7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'Erik Wangmar
- 8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'Malin Lennartsson
- Bibliography
- List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens Archives
- Index.
