LABR 2P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Textile Industry, Sharecropping, Wage Labour
19 Feb 2016
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Mason implicitly compares stories from the present (our world), with stories from the past (history) He argues that workers" experiences in the west from 1800-1940 were similar to what workers are experiencing today in the non-western world. We might say that mason is comparing industrialization with globalization. He has a good point, but industrialization did not just affect workers in western europe and the united states. (this is the the west , the area of the world mason"s history focuses) Industrialization and imperialism: india under british colonial rule (1) India produced about 25% of the world"s textiles in 1750. By 1900 that figure had fallen to 2% Aided by railway building in india, british-made textiles replaced indian-made textiles in the export and domestic markets. Industrial methods of production gave british business an advantage over. As a result, indian handicraft producers were forced into agriculture, or else wage labour, in which case they became proletarians.
