Classes of Labour : Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town

Parry, Jonathan

Routledge（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 702 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367510329
• DDC分類 331.110954137

Full 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.

Contents

PART 1: Context - 1. Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent 2. Classes of Labour 3. Building Bhilai 4. The Price of Modernity PART 2: Work - 5. A Post in the Plant 6. The Work Situation of BSP Labour 7. Private Sector Industry 8. Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class PART 3: Life - 9. Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood 10. Growing Up; Growing Apart 11. Marriage and Remarriage 12. Self-inflicted Death PART 4: Concluding - 13. Focusing and Expanding the Lens