Author: | Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Das Gupta | ISBN: | 9780199095636 |
Publisher: | OUP India | Publication: | December 13, 2018 |
Imprint: | OUP India | Language: | English |
Author: | Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Das Gupta |
ISBN: | 9780199095636 |
Publisher: | OUP India |
Publication: | December 13, 2018 |
Imprint: | OUP India |
Language: | English |
Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical outcome of the capitalistic mode of production, working class consciousness is a process. Asking questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, and so on, this is a classic work on labour history.
Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical outcome of the capitalistic mode of production, working class consciousness is a process. Asking questions about the morality of labour, history of peasant revolts, capitalist intervention, and so on, this is a classic work on labour history.