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The Decline and Fall of the Jobber System in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1870–1955
- Source :
- Modern Asian Studies. 42:117-210
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008.
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Abstract
- In 1981, on the eve of the general strike that convulsed the Bombay cotton textile industry, millowners, managers and workers alike acknowledged that the jobber was a thing of the past. The jobber system, they agreed, had been dismantled decades previously.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14698099 and 0026749X
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Modern Asian Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7b5aa4806f240e36fde5308168ebdf12