Globalization and Ambivalence
Rural Outsourcing in Southern Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Durba Chattaraj (0000-0003-3024-4906, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Pages | 111-136 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547915000022 |
| OpenAlex | W2604660795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 36 |
Studies of globalization in India have focused on high-tech industries, such as call centers in urban areas. But a widespread effect of the globalization of India's economy is the growth of “rural outsourcing”—the expansion of urban-based industries into the countryside. Rural outsourcing links to longer histories of decentralized manufacturing in India. This ethnography of the decentralized industry of sari embroidery in Southern Bengal shows that workers are ambivalent toward it. Among villagers who participate in the embroidery industry, I found three scales of ambivalence: ambivalence toward the product; toward the production process; and finally, toward the politics of this form of decentralized production. Ambivalence is not a transient or uncertain position of confusion or ambiguity. Rather, it is a widely-held expression of the dual and contradictory positions that workers and contractors hold in relation to the industry. I argue that the “frictions” of globalization find expression not just in resistance or contestation, but also in articulated positions of ambivalence toward globalization processes
Ambivalence · Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Market economy · Outsourcing · Political economy · Political science · Product (mathematics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Indian Economic and Social Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Modernity at large
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |