The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'
Gunnel Cederlöf
2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway'
Arun Kumar
3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'
Radhika Krishnan
4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens' Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western India'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the British Empire'
Eleonor Marcussen
7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'
Erik Wångmar
8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'
Malin Lennartsson
Bibliography
List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens Archives
Index
