Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach
Jonathan Pattenden
€ 146.21
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine the material conditions of one quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile and often with several jobs in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented but far from passive in the face of ongoing exploitation and domination. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses ... Read more
Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine the material conditions of one quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile and often with several jobs in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented but far from passive in the face of ongoing exploitation and domination. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719089145
SKU
V9780719089145
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Pattenden
Jonathan Pattenden is Lecturer in Politics and International Development at the University of East Anglia -- .
Reviews for Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach
'This book is a valuable addition to the great tradition of studies of the political economy of change in rural India. It is very much up to the moment in its excellent contextualisation of contemporary change; its investigation of rural classes of labour and what shapes their prospects, is innovative, theoretically sophisticated and empirically precise.' ... Read more