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Does class matter? Class structure and worsening inequality in India.
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This article is published in Economic and Political Weekly.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 61 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social class & Social stratification.read more
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Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women’s Labour in India:
Sirisha C. Naidu,Lyn Ossome +1 more
TL;DR: Using a social reproduction framework, the authors explores how reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to capitalist production in India, and analyzes the conditions in rural working-class households.
Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part I - Agriculture
Amit Basole,Deepankar Basu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use aggregate-level data, as well as casestudies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sectors.
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Inequality in India: A review of levels and trends
TL;DR: This article reviewed levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s in India and drew extensively on the existing literature, supplemented with analyses of multiple data sources, to paint a picture.
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How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree?: Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from India
Sripad Motiram,Ashish Singh +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined intergenerational occupational mobility in India, and found substantial inter-generational persistence, particularly in the case of low-skilled and low-paying occupations, e.g., almost half the children of agricultural labourers end up becoming agricultural laborers.
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The Broken Ladder: The Paradox and Potential of India's One-Billion
TL;DR: The Broken Ladder as discussed by the authors is a comprehensive and fascinating account of development strategies in a fast-growing, yet largely agrarian, developing economy, with eye-opening details of missed opportunities and immense untapped talent that can be harnessed, with tremendous consequences for equity and growth.