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This comprehensive collection examines Marxist theory through contemporary Indian economic and social contexts. The work provides critical analysis of class formation, working class conditions, and labor relations in postcolonial India. Twenty-one chapters explore capitalism, primitive accumulation, economic development, and informal sector dynamics. The collection includes postcolonial critique of economic dualism, analysis of state formation and nationalism, and examination of postcapitalist alternatives and also includes:
Comprehensive examination of Marxist theory through contemporary Indian economic and social contexts
Critical analysis of class formation, working class conditions, and labor relations in postcolonial India
Theoretical framework for understanding capitalism, primitive accumulation, and economic development
Postcolonial critique of economic dualism and informal sector dynamics in developing economies
Analysis of state formation, nationalism, and imperialism in the context of neoliberal globalization
This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distribute the print edition in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Beyond Received Marxism
Chapter 1: Introduction to Historical Materialism: A Theory of Society and History
Chapter 2: Class Trouble: From Identity to Subject-Position (with Stephen Cullenberg)
Chapter 3: Introduction to Class-Focused Marxian Theory
Chapter 4: Class and the Question of Transition: Redrawing the Contour of Marxism in India (with Stephen Cullenberg)
Chapter 5: Class, History and Value Theory: Marx's Critique of Trinity Formula
Chapter 6: Market System of Capitalism on Trial
Section II: What is the Working Class?
Chapter 7: Labour, Class and Economy: Rethinking the Trade Union Struggle
Chapter 8: Disinterring the Report of the National Commission on Labour: A Marxist Perspective (with Byasdeb Dasgupta)
Chapter 9: The Condition of the Working Class in India
Section III: Deconstructing Agriculture, Informal Sector and Rural
Chapter 10: A Post-Colonial Critique of Economic Dualism and its Politics
Chapter 11: The Making and Unmaking of the (In)formal Sector (with Atanu Thakur)
Chapter 12: Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)colonial Formation of the Small-Scale Sector (with Ajit Chaudhury and Stephen Cullenberg)
Chapter 13: When Our Lips Speak 'Genderlabour' Together (with Byasdeb Dasgupta)
Section IV: Rethinking Capitalist Development
Chapter 14: Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique (with Stephen Cullenberg)
Chapter 15: Rethinking Poverty: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication (with Stephen Cullenberg)
Chapter 16: Social Funds, Poverty Management and Subjectification: Beyond the World Bank Approach
Section V: State, Nationalism and Imperialism
Chapter 17: Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State in the Context of the New Economic Map
Chapter 18: Gravel in the Shoe: Nationalism and World of the Third
Chapter 19: The Particularity of Imperialism in the Stage of Neoliberal Globalization and Global Capitalism: A Dialogue Between Nikolai Bukharin and Aimé Césaire
Section VI: Postcapitalist Politics
Chapter 20: Rethinking Postcapitalist Praxis
Chapter 21: What If, the 'Rural' is the Future; and Not the Past?
Index
