From Field to Factory: Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal

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Author: Morton Klass

ISBN-10: 076180420X

ISBN-13: 9780761804208

Category: Macroeconomics

From Field to Factory explores the impact of a modern factory on a Bengal agricultural village and the impact of the village's social and ideological systems on the factory. Morton Klass provides ethnographic data on life and work in both the village and factory and assesses theories of community, caste, village religion, and industrialization. This book will interest sociologists and anthropologists interested in South Asia, community structure, caste, village-level religion, and the...

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From Field to Factory explores the impact of a modern factory on a Bengal agricultural village and the impact of the village's social and ideological systems on the factory. Morton Klass provides ethnographic data on life and work in both the village and factory and assesses theories of community, caste, village religion, and industrialization. This book will interest sociologists and anthropologists interested in South Asia, community structure, caste, village-level religion, and the anthropology of work. Previously published in 1978 by the Institute for the Study of Human Issues.Author Biography: Morton Klass is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. His previous books include "East Indians in Trinidad, Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System," and "Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion". Anthropology Of Work Newsletter "In addition to providing excellent description and analysis, Klass points the way for further research."

\ Technology and CultureFrom Field to Factory is a meticulously detailed, professional anthropologist's account of social life and social structure in 'Gondogram' village...\ \ \ \ \ Anthropology Of Work ReviewIn addition to providing excellent description and analysis, Klass points the way for further research.\ \ \ Technology And Culture"From Field to Factory" is a meticulously detailed, professional anthropologist's account of social life and social structure in 'Gondogram' village..."\ \ \ \ \ Anthropology Of Work Newsletter"In addition to providing excellent description and analysis, Klass points the way for further research."\ \