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Fraternal Capital examines class, gender and work in Tiruppur, South India, where the export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of the agrarian Gounder caste, and of working-class origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their ‘toil’. This book asks how these self-made men turned Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy.
In questioning processes of social change alongside the self-presentations of a caste of good entrepreneurs, Fraternal Capital seeks to decenter understandings of capitalism by linking the analysis of agrarian transition with one way in which a singular past is translated and made useful for accumulation. As Tiruppur shifts to global production, this book follows shifting ways in which gender links sexed bodies to processes of differentiation, in the tenuous search for consent to an increasingly despotic work politics. Tiruppur demonstrates the importance of gender and geography to the globalization of capital as it effects the lives of working people in provincial India, as elsewhere.
This book will interest geographers, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, as well as readers interested in labor, gender, Indian development, and the cultural and political economy of globalization in the South.
ISBN-9788178240893
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Pages : 408
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