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Auteur(s) : Pattenden, Jonathan
Titre(s) : Labour, state and society in rural India [Texte imprimé] : a class-relational approach / Jonathan Pattenden
Publication : Manchester : Manchester University press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv-200 p.) : ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. 166-190. Index
La 4e de couv. indique : "Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of
societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across production sites, state institutions
and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society
are engaged in a protracted conflict that determines the material conditions of one
quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile, and often engaged in multiple
occupations in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented,
but far from passive in the face of ongoing processes of exploitation and domination.
Drawing on detailed 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, and views class in terms of contested social relations rather than structural
locations marked by particular characteristics. The book explores continuity and change
amongst forms of accumulation, exploitation and domination in three interrelated arenas
of class relations: labour relations, the state and civil society. Marginal gains
for labour derived from structural change are contested by capital, local state institutions
and state poverty reduction programmes tend to be controlled by the dominant class,
and civil society organisations tend to reproduce rather than challenge the status
quo. On the other hand, elements of state policy have the capacity to improve the
material conditions of 'the poor' where such ends are actively pursued by labouring
class organisations. It is argued that social policy currently provides the most fertile
terrain for redistributing power and resources to the labouring class, and may clear
the way for more fundamental transformations"
Sujet(s) : Pauvres en milieu rural -- Inde
Classes sociales -- Inde
Conditions rurales -- Inde
Travailleurs pauvres -- Inde
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.562 0954 (23e éd.) = Classe ouvrière - Asie du sud Inde
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780719089145 (rel). - ISBN 071908914X (rel). - ISBN 9781526133830 (br). - ISBN
1526133830 (br)
EAN 9781526133830
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456944097
Notice n° :
FRBNF45694409
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