Whatever happened to class? : reflections from South Asia

Author(s)

• Herring, Ronald J.
• Agarwala, Rina

Bibliographic Information

Whatever happened to class? : reflections from South Asia

edited with an introduction by Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala

Routledge, 2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction : restoring agency to class : puzzles from South Asia / Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala
• On the decline of class analysis in South Asian studies / Vivek Chibber
• Was the Indian labor movement ever co-opted? : evaluating standard accounts / Emmanuel Teitelbaum
• Workers' organizations in Pakistan : why no role in formal politics? / Christopher Candland
• From work to welfare : a new class movement in India / Rina Agarwala
• Middle-class activism and the politics of the informal working class : a perspective on class relations and civil society in Indian cities / John Harriss
• Why did "Operation Cremate Monsanto" fails? : science and class in India's great terminator-technology hoax / Ronald J. Herring
• Hegemonic aspirations : new middle class politics and India's democracy in comparative perspective / Leela Fernandes and Patrick Heller

Details

• NCID: BA87274439
• ISBN:
  • 9780415454681
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 216 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN670.3.Z9
  • DC22 : 338.951
  • DC22 : 305.512
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social classes -- South Asia
  • LCSH : Working class -- South Asia