Possibilities of transformation: The informal sector in India.

Bhattacharya, Snehashish; Kesar, Surbhi

Abstract

We identify a basic dualism between capitalist and noncapitalist spaces within the vast informal sector in India, and show that this dualism has been reproduced and reinforced during the past decade of high economic growth. This calls into question the idea of capitalist transition that informs much of the discourse on economic development. We provide some preliminary arguments about the nature of this dualism and the process of reproduction of the noncapitalist economic space.

Citation

Bhattacharya, S., & Kesar, S. (2018). Possibilities of transformation: The informal sector in India. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(4), 727-735. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613418793989

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 12, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 26, 2018
• Deposit Date: May 14, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 27, 2118
• Journal: Review of Radical Political Economics
• Print ISSN: 0486-6134
• Electronic ISSN: 1552-8502
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 727-735
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613418793989
• Keywords: precarity, informal economy, production and labor processes, non-capitalist, transition
• Publisher URL: https://www.umass.edu/economics/sites/default/files/Surbhi-PossibilitiesofTransformation.pdf
• Related Public URLs: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0486613418793989