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020			_a9781108744737
082			_a331.11730954 _bBRE
100			_aBreman, Jan _96449
245			_aCapitalism, inequality and labour in India
260			_bCambridge University Press _aNew Delhi _c2020
300			_axiii, 286 p.
365			_aINR _b650.00
504			_aTable of Contents Part I. Labour as Codified in Annals of the State: 1. The country liberated 2. An end to servitude? Part II. Constrained in Decrepitude: 3. The commodification of agricultural labour 4. The class struggle launched and suppressed 5. The Gandhian road to inclusion Part III. The Political Economy of Boundless Dispossession: 6. The Agrarian Question posed as the social question 7. Labour migration: going off and coming back 8. Indebtedness as labour attachment Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Capitalism, labour bondage and the social question.
520			_aJan 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. Rejects the idea that social development is linear Challenges the trickle-down notion of progress Suggests that capitalism is detrimental to the spread of welfare
650			_aWorking poor _96975
650			_aCapitalism _92731
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