German Historical Institute LondonHow did one of Bombay’s largest railway workshops become a key site for changing factory regimes and industrial relations in colonial South Asia? 🚂🛠️
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In our latest #blog post, former GHIL #scholarship holder Lukas Rosenberg (CeMIS, @[email protected]) examines how the Great Indian Peninsula Railway workshops in Parel transformed between the 1870s and the 1930s, tracing shifts in production organization, company-based welfare,
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racial management of the workforce, and the emergence of trade unions and staff councils that reshaped labour relations far beyond the railways.
Read his blog post now: ghil.hypotheses.org/...
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The Changing Face of Factory R...
The Changing Face of Factory R...
The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939
In 1879, Bombay (today Mumbai) saw the opening of the workshops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company (GIPR) in Parel, the single largest industrial complex in the city at the time. On a site of roughly sixty acres it employed thousands of workers to maintain the locomotives and wagons that facilitated passenger travel and … Continue reading The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939
📷 The board at the entrance to the Central Railway Locomotive Workshop, Parel. Photo by Lukas Rosenberg, 2023.
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