List of Selected works from the KCHR Library collection on “Labour History”

• Ajmad, Rashid. To the Gulf and back: studies on the economic impact of Asian labour migration. New Delhi: International labour organization asian employment programme, 1989.

• Allen, Joan, Camphell, Alan and Mcllroy, John. Histories of Labour: National and international perspectives.Delhi: Aakar books, 2011.

• Baby, A. A. Trends in agricultural wages in Kerala 1960-1990. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies, 1996.

• Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Capital and labour redefined: India and the third world. New Delhi: Tulika books, 2002.

• Basi, Tina J. K. Women, Identity and India’s call centre industry. London: Routledge, 2009.

• Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi. Essays in Modern Indian Economic History. Delhi: Primus books, 2014.

• Brenner, Aaron., Brenner, Robert and Winslow, Cal. Rebel rank and file: labour militancy and revolt from below in the long 1970s. London: Verso, 2010.

• Cahn, William. Lawrence 1912: The bread and roses strike. New York: The pilgrim press, 1982.

• Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Rethinking working-class history Bengal 1890 – 1940. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

• Chandra, Satish. Essays in Medieval Indian Economic History. Delhi: Primus books, 2014.

• Chaturvedi, Vinayak. Peasents pasts: History, politics and nationalism in Gujarat. Ranikhet: Permanent black, 2007.

• Daniel and Thorner, Alice. Land and Labour in India. New Delhi: Chronicle books, 2005.

• Desai, A. R. Peasants struggles in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1979.

• George, Jose., Kumar, Manoj., Ojha, Dharmendra.  Working class movement in India in the wake of globalization. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2012.

• Giri, V. V. Labour problems in Indian history. Bombay: Asia publishing house, 1960.

• Giri. V. V. Industrial relations. Bombay: N. M. Tripathi ltd, 1955.

• Gopalakrishnan, Shankar., Chauhan, Trepan singh., Kumar, Ramendra and Selvaraj, M.S. Conditions of work and political consciousness among migrant daily wage workers: A study of three states. Delhi: Aakar books, 2018.

• Government of India. Labour Investigation committee: Main report. Delhi: Manager of publications, 1958.

• Habib, Irfan. The Agrarian system of Mughal India 1556- 1707. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Hilton, Rodney. Bond men made free: medieval peasant movements and the English rising of 1381. London: Temple smith, 1973.

• Issaac, Thomas T. M. and Williams, Michelle. Building alternatives: The story of India’s oldest constructive workers’ cooperative. New Delhi: Leftword Books, 2018.

• Issac, Thomas T. M., Stuijvenberg, Van P. A., and Nair, K. N. Modernisation and employment: The coir industry in Kerala. London: Sage Publications, 1992.

• John, Mary E., Jha, Praveen Kumar and Jodhka, Surinder S. Contested transformations: changing economies and identities. New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2006.

• Jolly, Richard., Kadt, Emanuel de., Singer, Hans and Wilson, Fiona. Third world employment: problems and strategy. Australia: Penguin Education, 1973.

• Joshi, Chitra. Lost worlds: Indian labour and its forgotten histories. Delhi: Permanent black, 2003.

• Kamalasanan, N. K. Kuattanaadum karashakathozhilali prasthanavum. Kottayam: DC books, 1993.

• Kannan, K. P. Of Rural Proletarian struggles: Mobilization and organization and organization of rural workers in south – west India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.

• Kanungo, Alok Kumar. Mapping the Indo-Pacific beads vis-à-vis papanaidupet. New Delhi: Aryan books international, 2016.

• Kerkvliet, Benedict J. The Huk Rebellion: A study of Peasant revolt in the Philippines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

• Kurup, K. k. N. Keralathile karshaka samarangal 1946-52. Kottayam: Sahithya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society ltd, 2010.

• Majumdar, Asok. The Tebhaga movement: politics of peasant protest in Bengal, 1946-50. Delhi: Aakar books, 2011.

• Martin, Christopher R. No Longer Newsworthy: How the mainstream media abandoned the working class. London: Cornell University Press, 2019.

• Marx, Karl. Capital: A critical analysis of capitalist production, Volume 1. Moscow: Progress publishers, 1965.

• Marx, Karl. Capital: A critique of political economy, Volume 2. Moscow: Progress publishers, 1967.

• Marx, Karl. Capital: A critique of political economy, Volume 3. Moscow: Progress publishers, 1966.

• Mathew, E. T. Employment and unemployment in Kerala. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997.

• Ministry of Labour. Economic and social status of women workers in India. Delhi: Labour Bureau, 1953.

• Mishra, Lakshmidhar. Human bondage: tracing its roots in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2011.

• Naidu, Narayanaswami V. Report of the court of enquiry into labour conditions in Beedi, Cigar, Snuff, Tobacco-curing and training industries. Madras: Government Press, 1947.

• Nair, Muraleedharan V. Dynamics of agrarian struggle. New Delhi: Anmol Publications pvt ltd, 1996.

• Nair, Ramachandran K. Industrial relations in Kerala. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private ltd, 1973.

• Nair, Ramachandran K. The history of Trade Union Movement in Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala institute of labour and management, 2006.

• Nair, Ramachandran. Social consequences of agrarian change. Jaipur: Print well, 1991.

• Outline report on educated unemploy. New Delhi: Manager of publications, 1956.

• Panikkar, K. N. Peasants protests and revolts in Malabar. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1990.

• Patnaik, Utsa and Dingwaney, Majari. Chains of servitude: bondage and slavery in India. Madras: Sangam books, 1985.

• Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the twenty- first century. London: The Belknap press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Pothuval, A. K. Keralathil Jenmitham Avasanichu. Thiruvananthapuram: Prabhath book house, 1981.

• Prakash, Gyan. Bonded histories: genealogies of labour servitude in colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1990.

• Radhakrishanan, P. Peasant struggles, land reforms and social change Malabar 1836- 1982. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1989.

• Rajeev, Sharat Sunder.  The King’s Craftsmen: History of the ivory carvers of Thiruvananthapuram. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Council for Historical Research, 2016.

• Ramaswamy, Vijaya. Textiles and weavers in medieval south India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985.

• Rammohan, K. T. Tales of Rice: Kuttanad, Southwest India. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies, 2006.

• Raveendran, V. G. and Bhaskaran, C. Keralathile N G O Prasthanam. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala N G O Union State Committee, 2007.

• Report of the enquiry into the family budgets of industrial workers in Cochin State. Ernakulam: Government press, 1947.

• Satyanarayana, A. Andhra Peasants under British rule: Agrarian relations and the rural economy 1900- 1940. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1990.

• Sen, Sukomal. Indian Thozhilalivarga charithram. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala service, 2005.

• Standing, Guy. Labour circulation and the labour process. London: Croom helm ltd, 2001.

• Stein, Burton. Peasants state and society in medieval south India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980.

• Subrahmanian, K.K. The Handicrafts Industry in Kerala: Blending heritage with economics. Delhi: Danish books, 2006.

• Swindells, Julia and Jardine, Lisa. What's left: women in cultural and the labour movement. London: Routledge, 1990.

• Thakur, Vijay Kumar and Aounshuman, Ashok. Peasants in Indian history I: Theoretical Issues and structural enquires. Patna: Society for peasant studies, 1996.

• Trade unions and SAARC. Srilanka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1989.

• Veeraraghavan, D. The making of the Madras working class. New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2013.

• Zachariah, K. C. and Rajan, Irudaya S. Diaspora in Kerala’s development. Delhi: Daanish books, 2013.

• Zachariah, K. C. Migration and development: The Kerala experience. Delhi: Daanish books, 2009.

• Jeffery, Patricia. Labour pains and labour power: women and childbearing in India. London: Zed Books, 1989.