Capital, interrupted [[electronic resource] ] : agrarian development and the politics of work in India / / Vinay Gidwani

• Autore: Gidwani Vinay K. <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.10954/75
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - Economic aspects - India - Gujarat; Capitalism - Philosophy; Capitalism - India - Gujarat - History; Patidars - Economic conditions; Patidars - Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-325) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: Sutures; ONE: Waste; TWO: Birth; THREE: Machine; FOUR: Distinction; FIVE: Interruption; Afterword: Aporia; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide. With the Patels as his central case, Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not a frame of economic organization based on the smooth,
• Titolo autorizzato: Capital, interrupted
• ISBN: 0-8166-5657-6; 1-4356-3330-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781823003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II