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Problems and perspectives 2. The setting: Bombay city and its hinterland 3. The structure and development of the labour market 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working class neighbourhoods 6. The development of the cotton textile industry: a historical context 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton textile industry 8. Rationalizing work, standardizing labour: the limits of reform in the cotton textile industry 9. Epilogue: workers politics, class caste and nation.
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