This a book review of ‘Dream Zones’, a refreshing book that captures the richness, brutality, contradictions, struggles and hopes that characterise contemporary India. It is an anthropological study of a Special Economic ...

This is a book review of 'Labour, state and society in India' which applies a class-relational approach to processes of development in the South Indian state of Karnataka on three interrelated areas: labour relations, ...

Research in comparative capitalism has seen an increasing interest in emerging economies and has made attempts at integrating the informal economy as a distinct and significant feature of the institutional configuration ...

This chapter presents and analyses the employment relations in China and India, assessed in their broader institutional context as well as in the nature of their integration into the global economy, from a comaparative ...

There is a strong case for studying cooperatives as alternative forms of work organisation. In their reach and economic significance cooperatives may offer an alternative organisational form for creating and maintaining ...

This article critiques the scholarship on contemporary Arab societies for according a primacy to state-capital relations and neglecting the significance of capital-labour relations. Both, the comparative capitalism approach, ...