Human Bondage: Tracing its Roots in India - Hardcover

Mishra, Lakshmidhar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132105605 ISBN 13: 9788132105602

Verlag: SAGE, 2011

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Book by Mishra Lakshmidhar

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Críticas:

The book provides thoughtful insights into many dimensions of the social evil of bonded labour. [It] is a great eye-opener for economists, leaders and policy-makers who have become complacent because of their satisfaction with India’s growth story...The author has done a brilliant work by agitating the consciousness of all sensitive human beings in our society...this book draws the attention of those who matter and acts as a ray of hope for economically exploited helpless and weaker sections of society. (The Tribune)

Combining humanist sensitivity with the diligence of a committed public servant, and a careful reading of the law, [Mishra’s] book is an encyclopaedic record of labour unfreedoms, past and present. [The author] traces ancient roots to contemporary forms of bonded labour in India...  [He] unravels the riddle of the perpetuation of unfree labour in free India.

(The Hindu)

A well-documented volume, brought up to date, and an important addition to the hitherto published major critical studies on bonded labour...Mishra’s analysis is illuminated by flashes of direct encounters with bonded labourers, migrants, members of depressed castes and women workers, enabling readers to listen to their voices- complaining, angry and rebellious. (Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 48, 22 June 2013)

Reseña del editor:

Human Bondage: Tracing its Roots in India is an in-depth study of bonded labour with special focus on how the system exists in India. The book provides us with a detailed analysis of the historical, social and cultural context in which bondage has developed.

The author discusses the socio-economic characteristics that accompany bondage: caste, illiteracy, landlessness and land tenure issues, alienation of land, lack of skills, poor employment and wage conditions, indebtedness, migration, and globalization.

Extreme forms of bondage, including child labour, trafficking in women and children, and social forms like devadasis and yoginis have also been covered.

The book explores important factors like the legal framework, policy interventions, solutions and the role of the various stakeholders-media, government, trade unions and NGOs-in tackling this issue.

The book is essentially about human freedom and dignity-the quintessence of human existence-and the forces that rob them, the dispossessed victims, consequences of dispossession, and ways and means of restoration.

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• Verlag: SAGE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8132105605
• ISBN 13: 9788132105602
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512