Shahid Amin and Marcel van der Linden Introduction 1 Gyan Prakash Colonialism, Capitalism and the Discourse of Freedom 9 Erick D. Langer The Barriers to Proletarianization: Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826-1918 27 Juan A. Giusti-Cordero Labour, Ecology and History in a Puerto Rican Plantation Region: "Classic" Rural Proletarians Revisited 53 Dilip Simeon Coal and Colonialism: Production Relations in an Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947 83 Madhavi Kale "Capital Spectacles in British Frames": Capital, Empire and Indian Indentured Migration to the British Caribbean 109 Samita Sen Unsettling the Household: Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal 135 Alain Faure Sordid Class, Dangerous Class? Observations on Parisian Ragpickers and their Cites During the Nineteenth Century 157
