EXISTENCE, IDENTITY AND MOBILIZATION: THE COTTON MILLWORKERS OF BOMBAY 1890-1919

This work is concerned with the early history of labour in the Bombay cotton textile industry. It takes into account various facets of workers lives - economic as well as social, cultural and political - and emphasizes both the uniqueness and commonness of the workers expriences with relation to the rest of the population. Numerous citations of workers descriptions of their working conditions are given both to counter the official versions as also to augment them.