1. Introduction: the underbelly of the Indian boom Stuart Corbridge and Alpa Shah 2. Company and contract labour in a central Indian steel plant Jonathan Parry 3. The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard Laura Bear 4. Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India Barbara Harriss-White, Wendy Olsen, Penny Vera-Sanso and V. Suresh 5. From field to factory: tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve 6. Mapping the social order by fund flows: the political geography of employment assurance schemes in India Stuart Corbridge and Manoj Srivastava 7. The intimacy of insurgency: beyond coercion, greed or grievance in Maoist India Alpa Shah
Biography
Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Development at LSE, where he is also Deputy Director and Provost. He is the author, with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society (2013).
Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE where she leads a research programme on Inequality and Poverty in India. She is the author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (2010) and is writing a book on the Maoist-inspired Naxalite movement.
