@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qd06v.14,
 ISBN = {9780857457844},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd06v.14},
 abstract = {This chapter focuses on the impact of the Great Depression on the jute industry in Calcutta. Jute was the largest and most important industry in the eastern region of the country at that time, the largest consumer of raw jute, and the most important commercial crop of the region; it accounted for a large share of exports from the region and the factories employed, just before the Depression, well above three hundred thousand workers. In the 1930s, the industry began to decline rapidly. Independence and the partition of the country in 1947 was the death knell, separating the jute-growing agricultural},
 author = {Samita Sen},
 booktitle = {Routes into the Abyss: Coping with Crises in the 1930s},
 edition = {1},
 pages = {152--166},
 publisher = {Berghahn Books},
 title = {Labour, Organization and Gender: The Jute Industry in India in the 1930s},
 year = {2013}
}