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Subject(s)

• Rural development—India [Browse]
• Informal sector (Economics)—India [Browse]
• Social stratification—India [Browse]
• Marxian economics—India—Case studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 71. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 71 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of capital, and of the complex stratification of the workforce along class and caste lines. Focusing on the processes of growth induced by the introduction of the high-yield varieties in agriculture, the book demonstrates that a low-road pattern of capitalist development has been emerging in provincial India: firms compete over price and not over efficiency, with a constant pressure to reduce costs, in particular labour costs. The book shows that low-skilled employment prevails and low wages and poor working conditions are widespread. Based on original empirical research, the book makes a valuable contribution to the debate on varieties of capitalism, in particular of the Global South. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of Development Studies, Political Economy and South Asian Studies."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-226) and index.

Contents

• The complexity of capitalist development in provincial India
• Analysing non-farm capitalism in provincial India
• A Marxist/institutionalist framework for the analysis of contemporary capitalism
• Introducing non-farm capitalism in provincial India
• Exploring class structure in provincial India
• Caste-based interest representation and the hegemony of capital in India's civil society
• A Marxist/institutionalist analysis of capitalism in Arni
• Long-term change in Arni's economy
• Institutional and spatial embeddedness in Arni's silk economy
• Capital's hegemony in Arni's corporatist civil society
• The low road of capitalism.

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ISBN

• 9780415642682 (hbk.)
• 041564268X (hbk.)

LCCN

2012049012

OCLC

800036105

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