The Labor of Development
Subtitle: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801435904
Subjects: Development studies; Social mobility; Transitional economies; Work & labour; Rural Economic Development; Labor; Working class; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Sociology; India; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Development - Economic Development; History; Kerala; Labor Unions; Labor movement
First sentence: In the 1960s, social historians reminded us that subordinate classes, to borrow from E. P. Thompson, were present at their own making, and that indeed, they helped make the modern world.