When compared to the other Indian states, Kerala's departure from the national pattern is tied to its history of social movements and highlights the significance of understanding sub-national patterns of democratic consolidation and state building. The case of Kerala provides important theoretical insights into the circumstances under which the expansion of political and social citizenship can become the basis for managing economic change. Using examples from agriculture, industry, and the informal sector, Patrick Heller examines the institutional and political dynamics through which the demands of organized labor and the imperatives of capitalist growth have evolved from a period of open conflict and stagnation to one of class compromise. He also demonstrates that the Kerala model has broad ramifications for understanding the relationship between substantive democracy and market economies in low-income countries.
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The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to predictions that labor militancy in developing countries threatens to overload fledgling democratic institutions and derail economic growth, The Labor of Development shows that the political and economic inclusion of industrial and agricultural workers in Kerala set the stage for a democratically negotiated capitalist transformation.
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In the 1960s, social historians reminded us that subordinate classes, to borrow from E. P. Thompson, were present at their own making, and that indeed, they helped make the modern world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Labor of Development, Tamil Nadu, Thomas Isaac, East Asian, State Planning Board, Economic Review, Accumulationist Strategies, Latin America, Making of Development, West Bengal, South Africa, Uttar Pradesh, Left Democratic Front, South Korea, Basic Statistics, Coir Board, Indian Express, Syrian Christians, Third World, Annual Survey of Industries, Barrington Moore, Kerala Agricultural Workers Act, Sri Lanka, World Bank, Administration Report New!
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In the 1960s, social historians reminded us that subordinate classes, to borrow from E. P. Thompson, were present at their own making, and that indeed, they helped make the modern world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Labor of Development, Tamil Nadu, Thomas Isaac, East Asian, State Planning Board, Economic Review, Accumulationist Strategies, Latin America, Making of Development, West Bengal, South Africa, Uttar Pradesh, Left Democratic Front, South Korea, Basic Statistics, Coir Board, Indian Express, Syrian Christians, Third World, Annual Survey of Industries, Barrington Moore, Kerala Agricultural Workers Act, Sri Lanka, World Bank, Administration Report New!
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- Bringing the State Back In by Peter B. Evans on 4 pages
- State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Joel Samuel Migdal in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- States and Development in the Asian Pacific Rim by Richard P. Appelbaum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Raghubir Singh: Tamil Nadu by Raghubir Singh on page 166, and page 168
- Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes by T. J. Pempel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects by Richard Sandbrook in Back Matter
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- Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Philip Oxhorn on page 29
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