The 1982–83 Bombay Textile Strike and the Unmaking of a Labourers’ City

The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike 9781978809932

This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hu

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Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland 1421404907, 9781421404905

John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer

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Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland 1421404907, 9781421404905

John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer

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Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike 9780823296668

Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a

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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor 9780295748504, 9780295748498, 9780295748511

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrial

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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor 9780295748511, 0295748516

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrial

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The Decline of a Cotton Textile City: A Study of New Bedford 9780231892957

Studies the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, beginning with the depression in the textile industry and the unemployme

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Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875 9780195625837, 0195625838

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SHOW: The Making and Unmaking of a Network Television Pilot

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Teenage pregnancy: The making and unmaking of a problem 9781847427786

In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbear

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