Blind Alleys and Red Herrings?:Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy

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Pattenden, Jonathan (2016) Blind Alleys and Red Herrings?:Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy. In: Social Movements and the State in India. Rethinking International Development series . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 215-238. ISBN 9781137591326

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Abstract

This chapter reflects on strategies aimed at improving the material and political conditions of India’s labouring class. It does so through an analysis of two prominent Indian social movements that engages with debates about where the fundamental fault-lines of domination and collective action lie. In line with approaches that recognise class differences within the countryside as well as transnational aspects of exploitation, it argues that cross-class alliances are not in labour’s interests, and should be rejected in favour of organising ‘classes of labour’. This requires place and time-sensitive strategies, which may include engagement with the state when this can augment labour’s room for political manoeuvre. Undue acceleration of pro-labour strategies may trigger countermoves that leave it in a worst position, while undue hesitancy can unnecessarily restrict the scope of change and hold down the material conditions of millions.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > The State, Governance and Conflict
Related URLs:	http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/97811375...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2017 01:48
Last Modified:	30 Sep 2021 17:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62762
DOI:	10.1057/978-1-137-59133-3

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