India Working
India Working
By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature, Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, the state, gender, religious plurality, caste and space. Despite the complexity of the subject, the book is vivid and compelling. The author's intimate knowledge of the country enables the reader to experience the Indian local scene and to engage with the precariousness of daily life. Her conclusion challenges the prevailing notion that liberalisation releases the economy from political interference and leads to a postscript on the economic base for fascism in India. This is an intelligent book, first published in 2002, by a distinguished scholar, for students of economics, as well as for those studying the region.
- novel approach to the Indian economy •drawing on the author's intimate knowledge of the region and the adjacent theoretical literature•compellingly told, for students and scholars in the field
Reviews & endorsements
"This book engages with a wide range of scholarship grounded in different disciplines to expand our understanding of how the contemporary Indian economy works. [D]ue credit must also be given to the author Barbara Harris-White for her self-conscious effort to converse with theories and empirical works outside the formal confines of economic studies." Prakash Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Enterprise and Society
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December 2004Adobe eBook Reader
9780511057809
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: the character of the Indian economy
- 2. Labour, work and its social construction in India
- 3. Class: Indian development and the intermediate classes
- 4. The local state and the informal economy
- 5. Gender, family businesses and business families
- 6. India's religious plurality and its implications for the economy
- 7. Caste and corporatist capitalism
- 8. Space and synergy
- 9. How India works
- 10. Postscript: Proto-fascist politics and the economy.
