This article aims at providing insight into one of the most important questions that still lurks within the discourses of India’s industrialisation or de-industrialisation. By analysing the case of a particular cotton weaving tradition in India, this article tries to explore how the adoption of new technologies or inflow of capital has brought changes within the labour relationship, which has eventually led to the transition within many other Indian handloom weaving traditions. Other than mere descriptions of structural relationships between stakeholders belonging to different hierarchies of cloth production systems, this article, with its analytic ethnographical framework, focuses on the cultural nuances of the workplace and labour-capital relationships within this particular cotton-weaving tradition. It tries to illuminate how these people get involved, how they interact and engage in different sorts of contracts with one another. Therefore, this article may help in understanding how inequality in the distribution of technical skills and resources instigate the politics of labour relationships, and ultimately how such socio-political arrangements carve the future course of a cloth producing tradition.

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了解导致印度棉织传统转型的一些关键因素

本文旨在深入了解仍然潜伏在印度工业化或去工业化话语中的最重要问题之一。通过分析印度特定的棉织传统案例，本文试图探讨新技术的采用或资本的流入如何带来劳动关系的变化，最终导致许多其他印度手摇纺织传统的转变. 除了仅仅描述属于不同等级的布料生产系统的利益相关者之间的结构关系之外，本文及其分析的民族志框架，重点关注这一特定棉织传统中工作场所和劳资关系的文化细微差别。它试图阐明这些人是如何参与进来的，他们是如何相互交流和参与不同类型的合同的。因此，本文可能有助于理解技术技能和资源分配的不平等如何激发劳动关系政治，以及最终这种社会政治安排如何塑造布料生产传统的未来进程。