Automatic for the People? Labor, Machines, and Ecology in Modern India
For Indian economic thinkers at the dawn of the 20th century—and their sympathetic observers abroad—India's industrial ascendance seemed inevitable. The nation's textile workers operated the same spinning frames and mule spindles used in England, signaling what many believed would be India's imminent mechanized transformation. Yet India's "failure" to fully industrialize remains one of development economics' most perplexing puzzles.Go to event