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Research & Publications of Dr. Chitra Joshi Books Chitra Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South, c1750-1950, (Cambridge University Press, 2015), ISBN 9781107521179. Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories (Permanent Black, New Delhi 2003) ISBN 81-7824-022- X; Anthem Press, London, 2005) ISBN 1 84331 128 3 (Hbk), ISBN 1 84331 129 1 (Pbk). Labour History and the Question of Culture (NLI Research Studies Series 046/2003, V.V. Giri National Institute of Labour, 2003).
Articles Published in Journals 1. Co-edited with an ‘ b T p :H m b 17501950’ p International Review of Social History, vol 59, S22, December 2014. 2. ‘ k Review of Social History 57:3, 2012.
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12. 'Kanpur Textile Labour: Some Structural Features of Formative Years', Economic and Political Weekly, 17, 1981, 1823-38.
Chapters in Books 1. ‘P b W k Q U b ’ A z . Labour, th th Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17 -20 Centuries (Brill, Leiden 2013). ISBN 978-90-04-23112-2 2. ‘ k Roads, Runners and the Re-O mm N k’ M v Linden and Leo Lucassen eds. Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen (Brill, Leiden, 2012). ISBN 978 90 04 22952 5 3. ‘I ’ -authored with Rana P Behal and Prabhu Mohapatra in Joan Allen, Alan Campbell, John Mcllroy eds. Histories of Labour, National and International Perspectives (Merlin 2010). ISBN 9780850366877 (paperback); 9780850366860 (hardback) 4. ‘ p :T K p T x M ’ M similiano Mollona, Geert De Neve and Jonathan Prry eds. Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, vol 78) Berg, Oxford 2009). ISBN 978 1 84788 076 5 (Cloth); 978 1 84788 074 1 (Paper) 5. ‘Fettered Bodies: Labouring on Public Works in NineteenthyI ’ M v Linden and Prabhu P. Mohapatra eds. Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories, Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (New Delhi 2009). ISBN 978-81-89487-50-8 6. ‘Between Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working-Class F m ’ by y Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History 1800-2000 (Macmillan, Delhi 2005). ISBN 1403 92503 8 7. 'Redefining Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working Class Families', Arbeit: Geschischte-Gegenwart-Zukunft, ed. Josef Ehmer, Helga Grebing and Peter Gutchner (Leipzig 2002). ISBN 3-931982-28-9 8.'Hope and Despair: Textile Workers in Kanpur (1937-38 and 1997) in Jonathan Parry, Jan Breman, Karin Kapadia ed. The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour (New Delhi 1999). ISBN 07619-9395-9 (US –HB); 81-7036-872-3 (India-HB) 9. ‘'T F m W k :I Labour in a North Indian City (1890s -1940s), in Gerard Heuze ed. Travailler en Inde, Collection Purusartha: 14, 1992. ISBN 27132 0980 3
Conferences & Workshops 1. P p ‘O H y P ’ A IM (I ) k p ‘ W k Sambhaavna Institute of Public Policy and Politics at Palampur, 28 March, 2015. 2. ‘F m M JNU, 19 October, 2013.
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11. ‘H b :N T ’ I ‘W Social Histories: Asian Histori p P m ‘ z by j M University, Yogjakarta and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 16-17 December, 2005. 12.‘F b : v b N y’ P p p South Asia workshop organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York at Raichak, Kolkata, 12-16 December, 2004. 13. ‘W b H y: P b m P b workshop ‘ W E m mm : H y’ z by M k U v y T
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16. P ‘O H y b H y’ 6 O b 2005 W k p Research Methods in Labour History, organized by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. 17.‘M b Exp m y’ T P m of Freedom and its Practice, WISER, University of Witwatersrand, 17-22 May, 2004. 18. ‘ b I m b ’ T P m its Practice, WISER, University of Witwatersrand, 17-22 May, 2004.
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30. 'Hope and Despair: Textile Workers in North India in the 1930s and 1990s', Paper Presented at a Conference on 'The World of Indian Industrial Labour' sponsored by Social Science Research Council and American Academy of Learned Societies at Amsterdam, 9-13, December, 1997. 31. 'Defining their Worlds: Kanpur Workers in the Colonial Period', Paper for International Workshop on 'South Asian Labour: Linkages Global and Local', Amsterdam, Oct. 1995. 32. 'Formation of the Textile Labour Force in Colonial India: A Comparative Perspective', Paper Presented at the International Economic History Conference, Leuven, Belgium, 1990.
Book Reviews 1. Review of Vasanthi Raman, Warp and the Weft: Community and Gender Identity Among Banaras Weavers, in Book Review, 35:3, 2011. 2. Review of Jan Breman, Labour Bondage in West India from Past to Present, in International Review of Social History, 53:1, April 2008. 3. Review of Subho Basu, Does Class Matter: Colonial Capital and Workers’ Resistance in Bengal 1890-1937, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 43:4, 2006. 4. Review of Alf Ludtke, ed. The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life, in International Review of Social History. 5. Review of Sujata Patel, The Making of Industrial Relations: Ahmedabad Textile Industry 1918-39, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 27:2, 1990
Resource Person 1. mm A my ‘W k N -W k b P p v ’ U v y South Korea, Organized by the international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Institute of Critical Transnational Studies and History Department, Sogang University, Seoul, 9 - 16 August 2015. 2. A IM (I ) k p ‘ W k Policy and Politics, Palampur 27-28 March 2015.
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