India and the Age of Crisis: The Local Politics of Global Economic and Ecological Fragility

ISBN-13: 9780367739645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str.

Michael Gillan; Rob Lambert

Opis

This collection considers socio-economic transformation in India noting how global integration, economic growth and market driven transformations give rise to questions of distribution, dispossession and the social and environmental sustainability of production systems and development policies.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction: India and the Age of Crisis  2. Accumulation and Dispossession: Contradictions of Growth and Development in Contemporary India  3. Labour Movements and the Age of Crisis: Scale, Form and Repertoires of Action in India and Beyond  4. Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India  5. Food Security as a Lagging Component of India’s Human Development: A Function of Interacting Entitlement Failures  6. Agrarian Crisis in Punjab and ‘Natural Farming’ as a Response  7. Trans-Boundary Water Resources and Uneven Development: Crisis Within and Beyond Contemporary India  8. Doing Development or Creating Dependency? NGOs and Civil Society in India  9. The Micro-Politics of Urban Transformation in the Context of Globalisation: A Case Study of Gurgaon, India

O autorze

Michael Gillan is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. His current research interests include the role of Global Union Federations in employment relations in India and Indonesia; employment relations and global production networks; labour movements in India; and employment relations in Myanmar.

Rob Lambert is Winthrop Professor at the UWA Business School. He is the co-author of Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity (Blackwell).