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The Quest for Distinction: A Reappraisal of the Rural Labor Process in Kheda District (Gujarat), India

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  • Vinay Gidwani

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In this article I examine how the rural labor process is constitutive of social identity, particularly status, by harnessing empirical evidence from Kheda District, Gujarat, and other parts of India. Emphasis is on the labor practices of the dominant Lewa Patel caste, and only secondarily on the practices of other caste groups. My central claim is that the labor process is a primary arena in which the quest for social distinction occurs and that the primary source of distinction is the ability to withdraw family labor power from the commoditized labor circuit. In this paper I seek to deepen conventional understandings of the labor process within economic geography, agrarian studies, and mainstream economics.

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  • Vinay Gidwani, 2000. "The Quest for Distinction: A Reappraisal of the Rural Labor Process in Kheda District (Gujarat), India," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 76(2), pages 145-168, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:76:y:2000:i:2:p:145-168
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2000.tb00138.x
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    3. Ryan Stock & Sumit Vij & Asif Ishtiaque, 2021. "Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 2314-2336, February.

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