Social Protection and Class Relations

Evidence from Scheduled Caste Women's Associations in Rural South India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3884402
AutoresJ Pattenden (0000-0001-5493-9775, University of East Anglia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas469-498
Fecha de publicación2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01696.x
OpenAlexW1758877192
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas22

This article argues that the labouring class poor are best able to access social protection when they have sufficient economic autonomy from their village's dominant class to allow them to act politically. To this end, the article analyses the capacity of associations of scheduled caste female labourers in rural Karnataka (south India) to access social protection through collective action. It identifies links between modifications of the material conditions of the labouring class, their capacity to take political action and the social and institutional forms that reflect the social relations of production. Three important variables are identified: the extent of economic autonomy from the dominant class, support from class-conscious social movement organizers and the political configuration of the local state. The former variable in particular is something that the mainstream social protection policy agenda fails to prioritize

Autonomy · Caste · Collective action · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social class · Social protection · Sociology · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Social and Economic Development in India