About the Author
Jan Breman is Professor Emeritus and Fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Works by Jan Breman
Koelies, planters en koloniale politiek : het arbeidsregime op de grootlandbouwondernemingen aan Sumatra's Oostkust in h (1987) 13 copies, 1 review
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java (Social Histories of Work in Asia) (2015) 7 copies
Outcast Labour in Asia: Circulation and Informalization of the Workforce at the Bottom of the Economy (2010) 6 copies
At Work in the Informal Economy of India: A Perspective from the Bottom Up (2013) 6 copies, 1 review
The Shattered Image: Construction and Deconstruction of the Village in Colonial Asia (1988) 5 copies
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism: A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice (2024) 4 copies
The Making and Unmaking of an Industrial Working Class: Sliding Down to the Bottom of the Labour Hierarchy in Ahmedabad, India (2004) 3 copies
Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia (1989) 3 copies
Koloniaal profijt van de onvrije arbeid : het Preanger stelsel van gedwongen koffieteelt op Java 1720-1870 (2010) 3 copies
Imperial Monkey Business: Racial Supremacy in Social Darwinist Theory and Colonial Practice (Casa Monographs, No. 3) (1991) 3 copies
The Poverty Regime in Village India: Half a Century of Work and Life at the Bottom of the Rural Economy in South Gujarat (2007) 2 copies
Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers: Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India (1986) 2 copies
Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India (2024) 1 copy
India's unfree workforce : Of bondage old and new — Editor — 1 copy
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A searing expose of the conditions of casual and migrant labor in India. Explains why hundreds of thousands of workers and their families are forced to trudge across the country after the COVID-lockdown. Also gives a fairly clear indication of the priorities in rebuilding the economy at the grassroots. This could be tagged as essential reading for all those concerned with the subject of developent.
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