Article ID: CBB935461811

The Transfer of Railway Technologies and Afro-Asian Labor Processes within the British Empire (2018)

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The transfer of railway technology within the British Empire, and particularly to India provides the focus for this paper that explores—conceptually, historiographically and substantively—what was transferred and how that transfer took place. Drawing upon the large-scale technical system literature and labor history the paper highlights various kinds and levels of transfer agents working through, albeit in an often-contested fashion, Afro-Asian labor processes as central components within the transfer process when railway construction was involved. Railway construction is then counterpoised to railway operation where the transfer process exhibited greater British dictation and adherence to British practice.

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Article Hugo Silveira Pereira (2018) Introduction – New Insights and Perceptions on Railway History. HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology (pp. 23-30). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rowen, Jonah
Kathleen Davidson
Dewey, Clive
Martin, Reinhold
Anderson, Peter
Alka Raman
Concepts
Imperialism
Colonialism
Technology and society
Historiography
Labor and laborers
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
India
New Zealand
South Asia
England
West Indies
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