Empire Industry and Class The Imperial Nexus of Jute 1840 1940 1st Edition by Anthony Cox ISBN 0415506166 9780415506168

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ISBN 10: 0415506166 
ISBN 13: 9780415506168
Author: Anthony Cox

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two regional economies – one in an imperial country and the other in a colonial one. The book examines the everyday lives of the jute workers of the imperial nexus, and the impact of the ‘Dundee School’ of Scottish mechanics, engineers and managers who ran the Calcutta jute industry. It goes on to challenge existing theories of imperialism, class formation and class struggle – particularly those that underline the exceptional nature of the Indian experience of industrialization – and demonstrates how and why Empire was able to provide an opportunity to test and perfect ways of controlling the lower classes of Dundee. These historical debates have a continued relevance as we observe the impact of globalization and rapid industrialization in the so-called developing world and the accompanying changes in many areas of the developed world marked by de-industrialization. The book is of use to scholars of imperial history, labour history, British history and South Asian history.

Empire Industry and Class The Imperial Nexus of Jute 1840 1940 1st Table of contents:

1 The making and re-making of the imperial nexus of jute, 1840–1900
The genesis of jute dependency
The coming of jute
Inside the mill
Becoming Juteopolis
The rise of the ‘Calcutta cutty’
The re-making of the Dundee—Calcutta nexus
Jute and empire
The Dundee response to Calcutta competition
2 The coming of the up-country men Labour conditions and class formation in the Bengal jute industry, 1875–1910
The condition of Indian jute workers during the early phase of industrialisation
The coming of the up-country men
The recruitment of migrant labour: causes and consequences
The 1894–7 labour up-surge
The swadeshi agitation, 1905–8
3 The imperial nexus and the making of Juteopolis, 1875–191
The re-making of the imperial nexus and the labour aristocracy of Dundee
Half-time labour and the remaking of the imperial nexus
Social conditions in Juteopolis
Patriarchy, the female headed household and class formation in Juteopolis
The male-headed household
Oary Dundee
4 Working class militancy and labour politics in Juteopolis, 1885–1923
The rise of socialist millenarianism and the re-making of the imperial nexus
Workers’ militancy and the growth of trade unions in Juteopolis
War, workers militancy and rent strikes
The post-war labour upsurge
5 Challenging the jute wallahs Non-cooperation, communism and the Marwaris, 1918–30
Communalism and class: the Calcutta riots of 1918
Non-cooperation and the Dundee School
The post-war growth of trade unions in Bengal
The coming of the communists
The Marwaris, the jute wallahs and the 1929 jute strike
6 The imperial nexus and labour politics in Dundee during the 1920s
British communists and the colonial question
The Sime—Johnston visit and the Labour empire
7 The breaking of the Dundee-Calcutta nexus, 1930–40
The depression and rationalisation in Dundee
The depression and the Bengal jute industry
The 1937 jute general strike
The remaking of paternal despotism
The breaking of the imperial nexus of jute
Conclusion

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