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The Underbelly of the Indian Boom (Paperback)
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As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar
billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800
million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day.
This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an
India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the
Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an
aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more
vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the
Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a
precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of
global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and
wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu,
but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile
industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among
industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability
in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new
nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in
Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these
schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which
they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired
Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the
country's greatest security challenge, where the poor are being
mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and
Society.
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