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Why do the bonded fear freedom?: some lessons from the field
Psychology and developing societies • 22 (2) • Published In 2010 • Pages: 249-297
By: Singh, Sunīta, Tripathi, Rama Charan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the case of the Kol people working as bonded laborers in the stone quarries and silica sand mines near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The authors analyze the various conditions and factors which have been responsible for keeping the workers in this bonded condition for many generations. The paper details and discusses the social intervention made by Singh and Tripathi which they hoped would ensure sustainable freedom for these bonded laborers. Details of this intervention are described in the text to great length.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor relations
- Private welfare agencies
- Political movements
- Mining and quarrying
- Social relationships and groups
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Renting and leasing
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Income and demand
- Sociocultural trends
- Borrowing and lending
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kol
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economics
- Psychology
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sunit Singh ; Rama Charan Tripathi
- Notes on Authors p. 296-297
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89645582
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Munda (Indic people)