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Sharad Chari - Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India - 9780804748735 - V9780804748735
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Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India

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Description for Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India Hardback. This volume examines class, gender and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners as hinging on their "toil". This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital. Num Pages: 408 pages, 24 tables, 28 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JFSF; JHBL; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 581.

Fraternal Capital examines class, gender, and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of working-class and Gounder caste origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their "toil." This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy.

Fraternal Capital decenters understandings of global capitalism by linking agrarian transition with the adaptation of a singular past in the interests of accumulation. As Tiruppur shifts ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804748735
SKU
V9780804748735
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Sharad Chari
Sharad Chari is Lecturer in Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Reviews for Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India
" . . . Fraternal Capital does an impressively nuanced, and theoretically rigorous job of foregrounding the local sites of the operation of global capital in Tiruppur, a small town in South India."
South Asian Review "This important book... presents a theoretically and empirically elaborate refutation of the idea that forces emanating from a Western-derived and dominated global capitalism ... Read more

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