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The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

Editat de Stuart Corbridge, Alpa Shah
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2020
As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu, but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the country’s greatest security challenge, where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state.


This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367739867
ISBN-10: 0367739860
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: the underbelly of the Indian boom Stuart Corbridge and Alpa Shah  2. Company and contract labour in a central Indian steel plant Jonathan Parry  3. The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard Laura Bear  4. Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India Barbara Harriss-White, Wendy Olsen, Penny Vera-Sanso and V. Suresh  5. From field to factory: tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve  6. Mapping the social order by fund flows: the political geography of employment assurance schemes in India Stuart Corbridge and Manoj Srivastava  7. The intimacy of insurgency: beyond coercion, greed or grievance in Maoist India Alpa Shah

Notă biografică

Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Development at LSE, where he is also Deputy Director and Provost. He is the author, with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society (2013).


Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE where she leads a research programme on Inequality and Poverty in India. She is the author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (2010) and is writing a book on the Maoist-inspired Naxalite movement.

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As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader on a journey to the underbelly of the Indian boom to reveal an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive.