ISBN:
9780739132562
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (230 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Whatever Happened to Class? : Reflections from South Asia
DDC:
305.50954
Keywords:
Social classes - South Asia
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia, yet has fallen from favor. In this volume, original empirical work investigates the contributions and limits of class analysis in understanding politics and allocative patterns of a globalizing South Asia, with suggestions for refining theory
Abstract:
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia, yet has fallen from favor. In this volume, original empirical work investigates the contributions and limits of class analysis in understanding politics and allocative patterns of a globalizing South Asia, with suggestions for refining theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abstracts; Introduction - Restoring Agency to Class: Puzzles from South Asia; 1. On the Decline of Class Analysis in South Asian Studies; 2. Was the Indian Labor Movement Ever Co-opted?: Evaluating Standard Accounts; 3. Workers' Organizations in Pakistan: Why No Role in Formal Politics?; 4. From Work to Welfare: A New Class Movement in India; 5. Middle-Class Activism and the Politics of the Informal Working Class: A Perspective on Class Relations and Civil Society in Indian Cities
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Why Did ""Operation Cremate Monsanto"" Fail?: Science and Class in India's Great Terminator-Technology Hoax7. Hegemonic Aspirations: New Middle Class Politics and India's Democracy in Comparative Perspective; Notes; References; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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