Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: An Aggregate Study

Authors

Amit Basole, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Working Paper Number

2009-12

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant relations of production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in which the surplus labour of the direct producers is appropriated by the dominant classes. This summary account is meant to inform and link up with on-going attempts at radically restructuring Indian society.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/1066720

Recommended Citation

Basole, Amit and Basu, Deepankar, "Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: An Aggregate Study" (2009). Economics Department Working Paper Series. 4.
https://doi.org/10.7275/1066720