Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century written by Dipesh Chakrabarty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.