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The Underbelly of the Indian Boom
by Stuart Corbridge, Alpa Shah (Author),
Routledge (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising
at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on
less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the
Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the
Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour
is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we
move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies
exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781138809697
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Routledge
Publishing Date 2014-09-29
Total Pages 176