Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
"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 agrarian Gounder caste and working-class 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.
About the Author
Sharad Chari is Lecturer in Human Geography at the London School of Economics, and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Development Studies, University of Natal, Durban.
Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India,Sharad Chari,Stanford University Press,080474873X,Anthropology - Cultural,Anthropology - General,Archaeology / Anthropology,Asia - General,Economic conditions,India,Industrialization,Social Science,Social aspects,Social conditions,Sociology,Tiruppur,Working class
Hot Books:
Recommended Books