The imperial underbelly : workers, contractors, and entrepreneurs in colonial India and Scandinavia /: workers, contractors, and entrepreneurs in colonial India and Scandinavia. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gunnel Cederlöf.
• Editors: Cederlöf, Gunnel
• Contents: List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. ‘Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn’ Gunnel Cederlöf 2. ‘The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway’ Arun Kumar 3. ‘Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social and Professional Networks within the ‘Contract System’ in Railway Building’ Radhika Krishnan 4. ‘Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens’ Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859–69’ Dhiraj Kumar Nite 5. ‘Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western India’ Dhiraj Kumar Nite 6. ‘Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the British Empire’ Eleonor Marcussen 7. ‘Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens’ Erik WÃ¥ngmar 8. ‘Fulfilling One’s Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master’s Daughters and the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family’ Malin Lennartsson Bibliography List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens Archives Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.0954; Labor -- India -- History -- India; Labor -- Scandinavia -- History; Contractors -- India -- History; Contractors -- Scandinavia -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000805017; 9781000804966
• Related ISBNs: 9781032320922
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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