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Rajnarayan Chandavarkar presents the first major study of the relationship between labour and capital in India's economic development in the early twentieth-century. He explores the emergence of capitalism in the region, the development of the cotton textile industry, its particular problems in the 1920s and 1930s and the mill owners' and the state's responses to them. The author also investigates how a labour force was formed in Bombay - its rural roots, urban networks, industrial organisation and the way in which it shaped capitalist strategies. In a subject dominated by the assumption of unities, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar convincingly demonstrates the fragmentation of class, on the side of both capital and labour. Their interaction sometimes exacerbated their internal differences. But, the author also asks on what terms, to what ends, and under what circumstances solidarities could be forged between workers.

Working class --- Cotton textile industry --- Capitalism --- Travailleurs --- Tissus de coton --- Capitalisme --- History --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Bombay (India) --- Bombay (Inde) --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- 812 Ideologie --- 815 Geschiedenis --- 828 Geografie --- 836 (Multi-)nationale ondernemingen --- 883.5 Zuid-Azië --- Conditions économiques --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Textile industry --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Employment --- Mumbai (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- India --- Bombay --- 20th century --- Industrial arts --- Working class - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Cotton textile industry - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Bombay (India) - Industries - History - 20th century. --- Capitalism - India - Bombay - History - 20th century. --- Arts and Humanities