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<p>Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and their relationship to such Marxian categories as "capital
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- Author
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691070308
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Management, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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