Crafting India's Skill Ecology
This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform...
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| description | This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform, and acquire meaning. Skill is examined here not merely as a technical attribute but as a historically contingent category, shaped by state policy, capitalist ideologies, and hierarchies of power. Focusing on industrial training from the late colonial period – particularly the 1930s – through Nehruvian state-led industrialisation and into the era of neoliberal reform, the book explores how skilling became a terrain of collaboration and contestation between the state and the capital. It also reveals how social relations influence the legitimacy of skills, determining what forms of labour are seen as ‘skilled’ or ‘unskilled’ and for whom. Combining perspectives from history, political science, and colonial and postcolonial studies, this interdisciplinary work offers fresh insights into the politics of labour and development in South Asia. It will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in modern history, political science, sociology, economics, social policy, and Asian studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1696922025-12-02T05:05:17Z Crafting India's Skill Ecology Maitra, Saikat Schwecke, Sebastian vocational education India caste and class dynamics industrial training history neoliberal labour policy gender in technical education informal sector work postcolonial skill development politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform, and acquire meaning. Skill is examined here not merely as a technical attribute but as a historically contingent category, shaped by state policy, capitalist ideologies, and hierarchies of power. Focusing on industrial training from the late colonial period – particularly the 1930s – through Nehruvian state-led industrialisation and into the era of neoliberal reform, the book explores how skilling became a terrain of collaboration and contestation between the state and the capital. It also reveals how social relations influence the legitimacy of skills, determining what forms of labour are seen as ‘skilled’ or ‘unskilled’ and for whom. Combining perspectives from history, political science, and colonial and postcolonial studies, this interdisciplinary work offers fresh insights into the politics of labour and development in South Asia. It will be essential reading for scholars and researchers in modern history, political science, sociology, economics, social policy, and Asian studies. 2025-12-02T05:05:16Z 2025-12-02T05:05:16Z 2025-12-01T12:20:18Z 2025 book ONIX_20251201T131047_9781040549575_76 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108863 9781040549575 9781040651391 9781003604846 9781032995649 9781032996165 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169692 eng Politics and Society in India and the Global South open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108863/1/9781040549575.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003604846 10.4324/9781003604846 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 c2e83eb1-ee65-405e-a7ae-ccc528c6bfbb 9781040549575 9781040651391 9781003604846 9781032995649 9781032996165 Routledge 342 Oxford [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | vocational education India caste and class dynamics industrial training history neoliberal labour policy gender in technical education informal sector work postcolonial skill development politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies Crafting India's Skill Ecology |
| title | Crafting India's Skill Ecology |
| title_full | Crafting India's Skill Ecology |
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| topic | vocational education India caste and class dynamics industrial training history neoliberal labour policy gender in technical education informal sector work postcolonial skill development politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies |
| topic_facet | vocational education India caste and class dynamics industrial training history neoliberal labour policy gender in technical education informal sector work postcolonial skill development politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies |
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