Fraternal capital : peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalization in provincial India
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2004
xxv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780804748735, 080474873X
54372941
Introduction: a worker path to capital?
Social labor and the industrial present: Social labor, or how a town works; Accumulation strategies and Gounder dominance
The agrarian past in an unstable present: Agrarian and colonial questions; Can the subaltern accumulate capital?; Gender fetishisms and shifting hegemonies; Conclusion: globalizing the muffosils
Epilogue: Gounders in the third Italy