Labour, State and Society in Rural India : A Class-Relational Approach.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Labour, state and society -- The conditions of labour: poverty in India and Karnataka -- Poverty in Karnataka -- District-level variations -- Fieldwork locations and methods -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2 A class-relational approach -- Defining 'classes of labour' and the 'dominant class' -- Exploitation -- Weber and 'semi-relational' approaches to poverty -- Keeping it residual? The 'semi-relational' in the literature on poverty and development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Labour, state and civil society in rural India -- Classes of labour in India -- Changing class relations in rural India -- Forms of unfreedom in labour relations -- Civil society and organisations of the labouring class -- A neoliberalisation of civil society? -- The state and social policy in India -- The dominant class and local government institutions -- Pro-labouring class change and types of social policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Changing dynamics of exploitation in rural South India -- Village characteristics -- Changing forms of control over agricultural labour -- Paddy transplantation and piece-rate wage-labour -- Relations between maistries, farmers and labourers -- Circular migration through boomtown Bengaluru -- The outcomes of circulation -- Commuting in Dharwad -- Socio-political change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Dynamics of domination in rural South India -- Political contexts -- Domination and the rise of gatekeeping -- Gatekeeping-as-accumulation -- Levels and types of gatekeeping: class relations at the state-society interface -- Level 1 gatekeepers -- Gatekeeping-as-domination -- Level 3 gatekeepers -- Level 2 gatekeepers.

Accumulation and gatekeeping at state level -- Notes -- 6 Social policy and class relations -- NREGS in India: contestation and uneven outcomes -- Uneven outcomes -- NREGS in North Karnataka -- The rise and fall of NREGS in Dharwad, 2011-13 -- Gatekeepers, accumulation and control: uneven implementation of NREGS at village-level -- Panchnagaram Gram Panchayat -- Kamlapur Gram Panchayat -- Class conflict in Raichur -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The neoliberalisation of civil society -- Civil society and contractor NGOs in Dharwad -- Self-help groups and class relations -- SHGs, loans and class relations -- Intra-SHG politics -- Gender relations -- SHGs and party politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Organisations of labouring class women -- Conscientisation and mobilisation: the emergence of a social movement -- Class relations in the villages -- Uneven outcomes across three women's sanghas -- Saraswati Sangha -- Bagaldini Sangha -- Chandapur Sangha -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach that focuses on 'the poor's' iniquitous relations with others.

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