The political economy of uneven rural development : case of the nonfarm sector in Kerala, India /

The political economy of uneven rural development : case of the nonfarm sector in Kerala, India /

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Author / Creator:Bordoloi, Sudarshana, author.
Imprint:Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Description:1 online resource (326 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Rural development -- India -- Kerala.
Rural development
India -- Kerala
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12606484
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ISBN:9789811545030
9811545030
9811545022
9789811545023
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
2 State Policies in the Colonial Period (1800-1947)
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:The book shows how class relations develop and is a consequence of capitalist development of the rural nonagricultural/nonfarm sector (RNFS)--seen as the dialectical relation between the forces and relations of production--as mediated by the state, which produces uneven social and spatial outcomes. Central to the framework for this book are four interrelated conceptual building blocks or themes: social relations of production, productive forces, role of the state and concrete development outcomes of capitalist production in RNFS in the context of class and non-class relations of oppressions. These four conceptual themes follow a logical sequence where each concept evolve in specific contexts within the RNFS; while connected to each other in a dialectical manner; and come together to form the central argument of the book.
Other form:Print version: Bordoloi, Sudarshana The Political Economy of Uneven Rural Development : Case of the Nonfarm Sector in Kerala, India Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2020 9789811545023
Standard no.:10.1007/978-981-15-4
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1 Why Rural Nonfarm Sector (RNFS)?
  • 2 A Historical-Geographical Materialist Framework for the RNFS
  • 3 The RNFS in India and the Case of the Coir Industry in Kerala
  • 4 Study Area
  • 5 Methodological Framework
  • 6 Chapter Layout
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Rural Nonagricultural/Nonfarm Sector in the International Development Studies Literature
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 RNFS as a Complex Category
  • 3 Emergence of RNFS: Factors Underlying It
  • 3.1 Growth Linkages of the RNFS
  • 3.1.1 Forward Linkages
  • 3.1.2 Backward Linkages
  • 3.1.3 Counterarguments to Forward Linkages
  • 3.2 The Role of the State
  • 3.3 Neoliberal Globalization and the RNFS
  • 4 Development Consequences of the RNFS
  • 4.1 Income and Wages
  • 4.2 Rural Labor Relations
  • 4.3 Gender and Caste
  • 5 Case of Kerala and Coir Industry
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Conceptualizing the Rural Nonfarm Sector: A Critique and Reconstruction
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Gaps in the Existing Literature
  • 2.1 Lack of a Class-Based Approach to the RNFS
  • 2.2 Inadequate Treatment of the Role of the State
  • 2.3 Relation Between Class and Non-Class Entities Missing
  • 2.4 A-historical Approach of the RNFS
  • 2.5 A-spatial and 'A-scalar' Perspective of the RNFS
  • 3 Elements of an Alternative Framework for the RNFS
  • 4 Relations of Production and Productive Forces in the RNFS
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: The Coir Industry and Its Social Relations of Production
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Historical Geography of the Formation of Social Relations of Production
  • 3 A Map of Contemporary Classes and Class Relations in the Coir Industry
  • 3.1 Exporting-cum-Producing Class (EP)
  • 3.2 Medium-Scale Producers
  • 3.3 Small Producers or Semi-Proletariats
  • 3.4 Workers
  • 3.5 Trading Class
  • 4 Methods of Exploitation in the Coir Industry
  • 4.1 Lengthening the Working Day
  • 4.2 Depression of Wages
  • 4.3 Other Methods of Exploitation
  • 5 Labor Control in the Coir Industry
  • 6 Class and Non-Class (Gender-/Caste-Based Differentiation)
  • 6.1 Gender Relations
  • 6.2 Caste Relations
  • 7 Spatial Structuring of Social Relations
  • 8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Productive Forces in the Coir Industry
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Labor Process in the Coir Industry
  • 2.1 Products and Means of Production
  • 2.1.1 Raw Material Extraction
  • 2.1.2 Spinning of Coir Yarn
  • 2.1.3 Weaving of Finished Goods
  • 2.2 Types of Labor Power in the Production Process
  • 3 Spatial Organization of Productive Forces
  • 4 Production and Export of Coir and Coir Products
  • 5 Productivity and Technological Change
  • 5.1 Productivity
  • 5.2 Technological Change
  • 5.3 Contradictions in Technological Change
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Development Policies of the Indian State for the Nonagricultural Sector
  • 1 Introduction

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