The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India: A Study of the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1854-1947This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
History of the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry | 22 |
Supply of Labor | 39 |
Proportion of Total Bombay Population and Mill | 65 |
Stability and Instability in the Labor Force | 84 |
Length of Service in the Bombay CottonMill | 88 |
Hours of Work | 101 |
Trade Unions the State and Labor Discipline | 178 |
Summary and Conclusions | 198 |
Average Number of Mill Hands Employed Daily on all Shifts Bombay Cotton Textile Mills 1865 | 213 |
Average Daily Employment of Men Women and Children Bombay Cotton Textile Mills 18841947 | 217 |
Index of Monthly Fulltime Wages in the Bombay Cotton Mill Industry 18751947 | 219 |
Places of Origin of CottonMill Work Force | 226 |
Bombay Cotton MillHand Caste Information | 233 |
Uniform Code of Work Regulations Proposed by the Bombay Millowners Association 1892 | 238 |
Work Regulations in the Mills | 107 |
Administration of the Work Force | 129 |
Wage Structure and Labor Discipline | 154 |
Maximum Monthly Wages Recommended by BMOA | 155 |
Standing Orders for Mill Hands in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry 1937 | 241 |
| 247 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able absenteeism actually apparently Association attempt authority average BMOA Bombay Bombay mills caste cause census cent claimed clear Commission Committee continued costs cotton cotton mills daily demand departments discipline districts early earnings economic effect employed employers employment established evidence example existed fact factory figures fines give given Government groups IFLC important increase Indian indicated individual industry issues jobber labor force Labor Office least leave less manager Mehta ment mill hands Millowners month notice occupations operatives organization paid period persons population possible problem production proportion proposal rates reasons recruitment reduced reported represented rules seems situation social specific standardization strike suggests supply survey Table tended textile tion trade traditional unions untouchables wage weaving women workers