Fraternal Capital
Subtitle: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780804748735
Subjects: Development economics; Globalization; Rural communities; Work & labour; Tiruppur; Industrialization; Asia - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; India; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Working class; Anthropology - General; Economic conditions; Social aspects; Social conditions
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 working-class and Gounder caste 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."--BOOK JACKET.