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Of Bondage Old and NewThis volume makes a distinction between agrarian bondage as it existed in the past and the contemporary practices of bondage in various branches of the economy. It suggests that the analysis for bonded labour cannot be disassociated from a broader analysis related to the whole landscape of labour. The emergence of neo-bondage is strongly connected to the reinforcement of the informalization of labour relationships as well as the intensification of circulation and labour migration. Neo-bondage is strongly connected to the increased monetization of commodity exchanges and of social relationships, as well as the development of mass consumption. The authors do not accept the proposition that labour bondage is likely to disappear when economic growth is sustained at its current rate. ISBN:9780195698466Title:India's Unfree WorkforceAuthor:Jan Breman, Isabelle Guérin, Aseem PrakashImprint:Oxford University Press, USAPhysical Desc.:392 p.Year:2009ContentsIntroductionPART I. AGRARIAN BONDAGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEAfter Slavery : Unfree Rural Labour in Post-1842 Eastern IndiaJacques PouchepadassEntrapped between Bondage and Freedom : Paraiyans and the Changing Fortunes of Agrestic Servitude in Colonial and Post-Colonial Tamil NaduRaj Sekhar BasuModern Bondage : Atiyaayma in Post-Abolition MalabarK.T. RammohanFrom Contract to Status? Or How Law Shaped Labour Relations in Colonial India, 1780-1880Prabhu P. MohapatraPART II. CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF BONDAGEConceptualizing Continuity and Change in Emerging Forms of Labour Bondage in IndiaRavi S. StrivastavaBondage in India : Representing the Past or the Present ? the Case of the Dhanbad Coal Belt during the 1980sDjallal HeuzéCorridors of Migration and Chains of Dependence : Brick Kiln Moulders in Tamil NaduIsabelle Guérin, in collaboration with G. VenkatasubramanianHow (Un)free are the Workers in the Labour Market ? A Case Study of Brick KilnsAseem PrakashNeo-bondage, Seasonal Migration, and Job Brokers : Cane Cutters in Tamil NaduIsabelle Guérin, Augendra Bhukhut, Kamala Marius-Hnanou, and G. Venkatasubramanian"Workers,, Trust  Us !" Labour Middlemen and the Rise of the Lower Castes in Andhra PradeshDavid PicheritBonded Labour in the Rice Mills : Fate or Opportunity ?Marc Roesch, G. Venkatasubramanian, and Isabelle GuérinUnfree Labour in the Plantation SystemSharit K. BhowmikPART III. THE URGENT NEED FOR LEGAL AND GLOBAL ACTIONBonded Labour and the CourtsKamala SankaranA Global Alliance against Forced Labour ? Unfree Labour, Neo-liberal Globalization, and the International Labour OrganisationJens Lerche