Capitalism, inequality and labour in India / Jan Breman.
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330.122092 ST 34 R Rethinking capitalist development : essays on the economics of Josef Steindl / | 330.1220951 H 86 C Capitalism with Chinese characteristics : entrepreneurship and yhe state / | 330.1220951 R 22 F The Future of Chinese capitalism : choices and chances / | 330.1220954 B8361c Capitalism, inequality and labour in India / | 330.1220954 D 95 E Economic liberalization and institutional reforms in South Asia : recent experiences and future prospects / | 330.1220954 G93G Gas wars : crony capitalism and the Ambanis / | 330.1220954 G93G Gas wars : crony capitalism and the Ambanis / |
Includes references and index.
Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.[Provided by publisher]
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