Outputs (50)

Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India (2021)
Digital Artefact
Lerche, J. Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India

The combination of caste & farmer identity amongst the Jats in western UP uniquely strengthens the resistance to the farm laws, but also creates barriers to creating lasting solidarities with marginalised groups that the farm movement is trying to in... Read More about Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India.

Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2021). Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815

Piketty's propositions for arresting inequality are discussed through the lens of racism/casteism. We focus on the case of India's George Floyds—the persistence of caste and tribe oppression under economic growth in India—through the insights of our... Read More about Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.

Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown. [Blog post]

The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion

Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India (2020)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(4), 719-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12401

This paper focuses on the processes of migrant labour exploitation which are crucial for capitalist growth and the inequalities they generate. Ethnographic research conducted in different sites across India shows how patterns of seasonal labour migra... Read More about Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.

Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India (2018)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., & Alpa, S. (2018). Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(5-6), 927-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217

Neoliberal globalisation has resulted in the bypassing of agrarian transition-led industrialisation and classic proletarianisation, and class-for-itself class struggles are rare. Drawing on analyses of class relations, racism and other forms of socia... Read More about Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India.

Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India (2018)
Book
Alpa, S., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Benbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Raj, J., & Thakur, V. (2018). Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India. Pluto Press

The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai. (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lerche, J. The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai. London

Agrarian accumulation in liberalised India : a study of capitalist farmers in Punjab (2017)
Thesis
Sinha, S. Agrarian accumulation in liberalised India : a study of capitalist farmers in Punjab. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India (2017)
Book
Shah, A., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Denbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Raj, J., & Thakur, V. (2017). Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. Pluto Press