Social capital as a product of class mobilization and state intervention: Industrial workers in Kerala, India

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1055-1071

  Heller, Patrick ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS MOBILISATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LABOUR MOVEMENT; POLITICAL PROCESS; REDISTRIBUTION STRATEGY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; STATE INTERVENTION;

INDIA, KERALA;

EID: 0030445181     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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