Labour-Management Relations in Colonial India

Coal, Jute and Cotton Industries, 1900-1947

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Author:
Arup Kumar Sen
This book is a pioneering study of the relationship between management and labour in three key industries, namely, coal, jute and cotton textile, in colonial India from 1900 to 1947. It studies history of labour and enterprise through a Marxian-Gramscian lens. The author builds a narrative of economic history, alongside he pens a social history of working class life. It is a rare blend of economic and social history and an indispensable tract to understand the history of capitalist industrialization and concomitant labour-management relations in colonial India within the broad framework of Marxism.
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2025
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Arup K. Sen retired as associate professor of commerce at Serampore College, University of Calcutta. A doctorate from the University of Calcutta, Sen has published extensively on Indian labour history primarily in the pages of Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), the leading scholarly periodical in India.
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1 Introduction
 1 ‘Modernisation’ versus ‘Development of Under-development’
 2 Gramsci and Critique of Economism
 3 Growth of Industrial Capitalism in India

2 The Indian Entrepreneurial Class
 1 The Jute Industry Experience
 2 The Case of Coal Industry
 3 Cotton Textile Industry
  3.1 The Bombay Scenario
  3.2 Jamsetji Tata and the Naming of Cotton Mills
  3.3 Gujarati Mill-Owners
  3.4 The Ahmedabad Scenario

3 Managerial Style and Functioning
 1 The Managing Agency System
 2 Profit Policies
 3 Wage Policies
 4 Gandhi and Textile Labour Association
 5 Technological Policies
  5.1 Jute Industry
  5.2 Coal Mining Industry
  5.3 Cotton Textile Industry
 6 Personnel Policies or Its Absence: Racial and Community Biases
  6.1 Jute Industry
  6.2 Coal Industry
  6.3 Cotton Textile Industry

4 The Workers
 1 The Jute Industry
  1.1 Mix of Different Communities
 2 The Coal Industry
 3 Cotton Textile Industry (Bombay)
 4 Cotton Textile Industry (Ahmedabad)

5 Labour Management: Methods of Control
 1 The Jute Industry
 2 The Coal Industry
  2.1 Labour Recruitment
  2.2 Bribery
 3 Cotton Textile Industry (Bombay)
  3.1 Labour Recruitment
  3.2 Bridging the Gap between Management and Workers
  3.3 Jobbers’ Control over Workers
  3.4 Workers’ Housing
 4 The Cotton Textile Industry (Ahmedabad)
  4.1 Recruitment
  4.2 Ill Treatment of Workers
  4.3 Workers’ Housing

6 Capital, Labour and the State
 1 Workers’ Strikes
 2 Strikes in Coal Industry
 3 Strikes in Bombay

7 Towards a Theoretical Reading

Glossary
Bibliography
Index 
Those interested in social and/oreconomic history, Industrialization, colonial India; and specifically in modes of labour management in colonial India.
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