Globalizing Labour: Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945, 0198078846, 9780198078845

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Globalizing Labour: Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945

G. Balachandran (Author)

Synopsis

The work is a study of the world of maritime workers and shipping during 1870-1945, a formative period for the world economy and a crucial period for the Brutish empire. It considers recruitment and control of shipping crews, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, voyages of the Indian seafarers and reveals the importance of Indian labour in particular in world trade and shipping. It explores the way South Asian seafarers led lives at foreign ports and in cities in war and peace, especially the encounters between seafarers and shore communities and their constituting ‘flexible labour’, the imperial efforts to regulate their employment, employers’ off-shoring strategies, and their resistance.

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About the author

G. Balachandran

Dr. G. Balachandran has a background of specialisation in electrical engineering, computer science and economic theory. He worked for several years as Development Correspondent of the Hindu, Madras. In recent years he has developed a keen interest in psephology, and has established himself as an expert in this field with his modified cube law model for election prognosis.

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