Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers
of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist
scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and
consciousness, he examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and
the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and
"revolutionary" action from 1890 to 1940. Around and within this
empirical core is built his critique of emancipatory narratives and
their relationship to such Marxian categories as "capital,"
"proletariat," or "class consciousness."
The book contributes to currently developing theories that
connect Marxist historiography, post-structuralist thinking, and
the traditions of hermeneutic analysis. Although Chakrabarty
deploys Marxian arguments to explain the political practices of the
workers he describes, he replaces universalizing Marxist
explanations with a sensitive documentary method that stays close
to the experience of workers and their European bosses. He finds in
their relationship many elements of the landlord/tenant
relationship from the rural past: the jute-mill workers of the
period were preindividualist in consciousness and thus incapable of
participating consistently in modern forms of politics and
political organization.
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