Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of capital, and of the complex stratification of the workforce along class and caste lines.

Auteur

Elisabetta Basile is Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome, Italy. She is co-convenor of the Europe-Asia Working Group of the European Association of Development and Training Institutions (EADI), and has worked extensively on capitalist change in Europe and in India.

Contenu

1. The complexity of capitalist development in Provincial India Part 1: Analysing Non-Farm Capitalism in Provincial India
   2. A Marxist/Institutionalist framework for the analysis of contemporary capitalism 3. Introducing non-farm capitalism in Provincial India 4. Exploring class structure in Provincial India 5. Caste-based interest representation and the hegemony of capital in India's civil society Part 2: A Marxist/Institutionalist Analysis of Capitalism in Arni
      6. Long-term change in Arni's economy 7. Institutional and spatial embeddedness in Arni's silk economy 8. Capital's hegemony in Arni's corporatist civil society 9. The low road of capitalism