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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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2 State Policies in the Colonial Period (1800-1947) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rural development -- India -- Kerala
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Labour economics.
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Development economics & emerging economies.
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Economics.
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Agricultural science.
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Political economy.
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Business & Economics -- Labor.
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Business & Economics -- Development -- General.
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Business & Economics -- Economics -- General.
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Business & Economics -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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Political Science -- Economic Conditions.
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Rural development
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India -- Kerala
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811545030 |
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9811545030 |
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