The political economy of uneven rural development : case of the nonfarm sector in Kerala, India / Sudarshana Bordoloi.
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....
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Singapore :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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