Capitalist Development in India’s Informal Economy

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Cover Capitalist Development in India’s Informal Economy Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1 The complexity of capitalist development in Provincial India 1 A variety of capitalism 2 Economic theory and empirical analysis 3 Purpose and plan of the book Part I Analysing non-farm capitalism in Provincial India 2 A Marxist/Institutionalist framework for the analysis of contemporary capitalism 1 Introduction 2 The main traits of capitalism according to Marx’s theory 3 Evolutionary Institutionalism and the agency/structure problem 4 The Marxist/Institutionalist dialogue 5 The Marxist/Institutionalist analytical framework 6 The eclectic framework, the analysis of capitalism, and Provincial India 3 Introducing non-farm capitalism in Provincial India 1 Introduction 2 The historical context 3 Economic diversification 4 Informal development 5 The distinguishing traits of India’s provincial economy 4 Exploring class structure in Provincial India 1 Introduction 2 The debate on class structure 3 A Marxist/Institutionalist class analysis 4 Capital and labour redefined 5 Caste-based interest representation and the hegemony of capital in India’s civil society 1 Introduction 2 Interest representation in civil society 3 Caste as an institution and an ideology 4 A Gramscian hypothesis on the role of caste in Provincial India 5 Caste, civil society, political society Part II A Marxist/Institutionalist analysis of capitalism in Arni 6 Long- term change in Arni’s economy 1 Introduction 2 The empirical research on Arni 3 Arni’s long- term change 4 On Arni’s variety of capitalism 7 Institutional and spatial embeddedness in Arni’s silk economy 1 Introduction 2 Arni’s industrial district for silk handloom saris 3 Social production relations 4 On the performance of Arni’s silk economy 8 Capital’s hegemony in Arni’s corporatist civil society 1 Introduction 2 The survey of Arni’s civil society 3 Arni’s civil society 4 Class relations in Arni’s civil society 5 Arni’s societal corporatism 6 Arni’s societal corporatism and India’s capitalist development 9 The low road of capitalism 1 The necessity of being eclectic 2 The distinguishing traits of capitalism in Provincial India 3 Social downgrading Notes References Index