Contested Capital

Contested Capital
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781108883481
ISBN-13 : 1108883486
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Book Synopsis Contested Capital by : Maryam Aslany

Download or read book Contested Capital written by Maryam Aslany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion and transformation of Asian economies is producing class structures, roles and identities that could not easily be predicted from other times and places. The industrialisation of the countryside, in particular, generates new, rural middle classes which straddle the worlds of agriculture and industry in complex ways. Their class position is improvised on the basis of numerous influences and opportunities, and is in constant evolution. Enormous though its total population is, meanwhile, the rural middle class remains invisible to most scholars and policymakers. Contested Capital is the first major work to shed light on an emerging transnational class comprised of many hundreds of millions of people. In India, the 'middle class' has become one of the key categories of economic analysis and developmental forecasting. The discussion suffers from one major oversight: it assumes that the middle class resides uniquely in the cities. As this book demonstrates, however, more than a third of India's middle class is rural, and 17 per cent of rural households belong to the middle class. The book brings this vast and dynamic population into view, so confronting some of the most crucial neglected questions of the contemporary global economy.


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