Satheesh, Silpa;
Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India.
[Book].
Economic Exposures in Asia.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Labour, Nature and Capitalism traces how the alliance between labour and capital manifests in the form of conflicts between organised trade unions and a local environmental movement in the context of the much-acclaimed Kerala model of development. It explores the history of the area’s local industrialisation, the presence of varied economic interests and exposes the barriers to forming solidarity networks among the working classes. Situated in the backdrop of the Eloor-Edayar industrial belt, this book delves deeper into the ways in which capitalism infiltrates and manipulates the social movement landscape in Kerala. It shows how the hegemonic coalition between the state, industries and institutionalised trade unions enable capitalist rationality to mediate and control social movements in postcolonial settings. Using an ethnographic approach, the book seeks to embark on a journey to understand the tensions between two progressive social movements – a trade union collective and a local environmental movement – foregrounding the experiences of members of the respective groups. The analysis presented here shows how the contestations/conflicts between the movements stem from interpretive as well as ideological differences surrounding economic development and environmental justice.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088054 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088054 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088054 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecom mons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Satheesh, S. 2025. Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088054 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Environmental Labour Studies, framing, Frame-Disputes, Capitalism |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206167 |
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