The Element highlights the monopolization and exclusion from high-value knowledge in analysing divergent and, recently, partially convergent income trends across 200-odd years of the global capitalist economy. A Southern lens interrogates this history, in the process showing how developing...

1. The making and re-making of the imperial nexus of jute, 1840-1940 -- 2. The coming of the up-countrymen : labour conditions and class formation in the Bengal jute industry, 1875-1910 -- 3. The imperial nexus and the making of Juteopolis, 1875-1910 -- 4. Working class militancy and labor...