Research Catalog

Title

From textile mills to taxi ranks : experiences of migration, labour and social change / Virinder S. Kalra.

Author

Kalra, Virinder S.

Publication

Aldershot : Ashgate, c2000.

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Description

x, 230 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Research in migration and ethnic relations series

Uniform Title

Research in migration and ethnic relations series

Subject

• Foreign workers, Asian > Great Britain
• South Asians > Employment > Great Britain
• South Asians > Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century
• South Asians > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
• Great Britain > Race relations

Note

• "DAMES-Dansk center for migration og etniske studier, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, ERCOMER-European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations"--Half t.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Constructing Labour -- Class and Ethnicity -- Ethnicity and Class -- Overlapping Perspectives -- Enmeshing Formations -- Methodology -- Ethnicity and the Labelling of Groups -- Developing a New Terminology -- Reflexive Approaches -- Identifying a Field and a Sample -- Ethical Issues -- Applying Methods -- Migration and Repercussion -- Migration Theory -- Early Migration -- Rural Context: Geography, Agriculture and Society -- Historical Conduits -- Mass Migration -- Political History Post-1947 -- Mangla Dam and its Impact on Migration -- Consequences of Mass Migration on Mirpur's Economy and Society -- Mirham and Oldpur -- Textile Tours -- Lancashire, the Indian Sub-continent and Cotton Textiles -- Decline of the Textile Industry in England -- King Cotton-Oldham -- Labour in Lancashire and Oldham -- Migrant Labour -- Routing Mills -- Of Mills and Men -- Routes to Oldham -- Routes to a Job -- Organising Mill Work -- The Night-shift in a Mill -- Mills and Men -- Of Men and Mills -- Eid and Trips to (Azad) Kashmir/Pakistan -- Union Membership and Participation -- Interaction and Relationship at Work -- Decline of Mills -- Factors for Redundancy -- Redundant not Despondent -- Initial Responses to Unemployment -- Changes in Life Organisation -- Family Commitments -- Moral Change-Ways of Explaining the World -- Work to Non-Work -- Take-Away Lives -- South Asian Entrepreneurship -- After the Mills -- Take-aways -- The Maharaba -- Relationships at Work -- Self-employment or Survival? -- From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks.

ISBN

1840148659

OCLC

43186544

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library