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Fraternal Capital

Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India

by Sharad Chari

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"Fraternal Capital examines class, gender, and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of working-class and Gounder caste origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their "toil." This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Economic conditionsWorking classRural developmentSocial conditionsIndustrializationSocial aspects of IndustrializationWorking class, indiaRural development, indiaIndia, economic conditionsSocial aspects