Labour, State and Society in Rural India
A Class-Relational Approach
Seiten
2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3383-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3383-0 (ISBN)
Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ‘class-relational’ approach that focuses on ‘the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others. -- .
Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach to analyse continuity and change in processes of accumulation, exploitation and domination. By focusing on the three interrelated arenas of labour relations, the state and civil society, it explores how improvements can be made in the conditions of labourers working 'at the margins' of global production networks, primarily as agricultural labourers and construction workers. Elements of social policy can improve the poor's material conditions and expand their political space where such ends are actively pursued by labouring class organisations. More fundamental change, though, requires stronger organisation of the informal workers who make up the majority of India's population. -- .
Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach to analyse continuity and change in processes of accumulation, exploitation and domination. By focusing on the three interrelated arenas of labour relations, the state and civil society, it explores how improvements can be made in the conditions of labourers working 'at the margins' of global production networks, primarily as agricultural labourers and construction workers. Elements of social policy can improve the poor's material conditions and expand their political space where such ends are actively pursued by labouring class organisations. More fundamental change, though, requires stronger organisation of the informal workers who make up the majority of India's population. -- .
Jonathan Pattenden is Lecturer in Politics and International Development at the University of East Anglia -- .
1. Introduction: poverty and the poor
2. A class-relational approach
3. Labour, state and civil society in rural India
4. Changing dynamics of exploitation in rural South India
5. Dynamics of domination in rural South India: class relations at the state-society interface
6. Social policy and class relations: the case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
7. The neoliberalisation of civil society: community-based organisations, contractor NGOs and class relations
8. Organisations of labouring class women
9. Conclusion: poverty and class
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.12.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black & white|Tables|Maps |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 313 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-3383-0 / 1526133830 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-3383-0 / 9781526133830 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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