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9780415523080: Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations
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ISBN 10 : 0415523087 ISBN 13 : 9780415523080
Editeur : Routledge India, 2014

Synopsis

As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force.

Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the extent, types and implications of inter-generational occupational mobility (or immobility) among tea garden labourers in Assam. In the process, it reflects on how even a sector that had brought capital and labour from outside and contributed significantly to the country's export earnings failed to create dynamic growth linkages within the local economy. The experience of the labour force in the Assam tea sector, the authors argue, is important for making sense not only of the development dynamics of the region, but of the contradictory ways in which forces of globalisation and neo-liberal reforms have been reshaping the worlds of labourers in the margins.

The book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, development studies, management studies, and studies of north-east India, as well as to policy-makers and those in the tea industry.

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À propos de l'auteur

Deepak K. Mishra, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Vandana Upadhyay, Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.

Atul Sarma, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi.

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Éditeur
Routledge India
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415523087
ISBN 13 
9780415523080
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
262
Coordonnées du fabricant
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