Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Sharad Chari
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Fraternal Capital examines class, gender, and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of working-class and Gounder caste origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their "toil." This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy.
Fraternal Capital decenters understandings of global capitalism by linking agrarian transition with the adaptation of a singular past in the interests of accumulation. As Tiruppur shifts to global production, this book tracks ways in which gender links sexed bodies to processes of differentiation, in the tenuous search for consent to increasingly despotic work politics. Tiruppur demonstrates the importance of gender and geography to the globalization of capital as it affects the lives of working people in provincial India and elsewhere. This book links the political economy of development to postcolonial and cultural studies, rooting the analysis of globalization ethnographically and geographically. Fraternal Capital provides a window into a decentralized capitalism and thereby critiques macroeconomic portrayals of globalization by showing how history, geography, gender, and work practice shape local sites of global production.
For orders from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, please e-mail Permanent Black at perblack@ndb.vsnl.net.in.
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Fraternal Capital examines class, gender, and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of working-class and Gounder caste origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their "toil." This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy.
Fraternal Capital decenters understandings of global capitalism by linking agrarian transition with the adaptation of a singular past in the interests of accumulation. As Tiruppur shifts to global production, this book tracks ways in which gender links sexed bodies to processes of differentiation, in the tenuous search for consent to increasingly despotic work politics. Tiruppur demonstrates the importance of gender and geography to the globalization of capital as it affects the lives of working people in provincial India and elsewhere. This book links the political economy of development to postcolonial and cultural studies, rooting the analysis of globalization ethnographically and geographically. Fraternal Capital provides a window into a decentralized capitalism and thereby critiques macroeconomic portrayals of globalization by showing how history, geography, gender, and work practice shape local sites of global production.
For orders from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, please e-mail Permanent Black at perblack@ndb.vsnl.net.in.
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- Title Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India
- Author Sharad Chari
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-08-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780804748735 / 080474873X
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 5.74 x 1.13 in (22.25 x 14.58 x 2.87 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Working class - Social conditions - India -, Working class - India - Tiruppur - Economic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004002486
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.360
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- Choice, 01/01/2005, Page 900
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