State spatial restructuring, subnational politics and emerging spaces of engagement for collective action: Labour regimes in Tamil Nadu, southern India
State spatial restructuring, subnational politics and emerging spaces of engagement for collective action: Labour regimes in Tamil Nadu, southern India
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国家空间重组、地方政治和集体行动参与的新兴空间：印度南部泰米尔纳德邦的劳工政权
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10.1177/0263774x16664097
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2017
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M. Vijayabaskar
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M. Vijayabaskar
本文通过研究印度等转型后期国家的结构调整过程如何塑造劳动力集体行动的空间，为新兴的国家重新调整文献做出了贡献。印度的国家以下各邦对经济结构调整进程的影响越来越大，它们面临着相互竞争的治理需要。一方面，它们必须提供有利于商业的环境，包括廉价劳动力，以吸引私人投资。另一方面，在民主政体中，他们被迫通过对劳工的选举呼吁来获得政治权力。通过对南部泰米尔纳德邦劳工制度的研究，我认为，国家以下各级政府已经通过实现一定规模的劳工治理来应对这一挑战，这种治理破坏了劳工参与改革和全球化所开辟的集体行动新空间的能力。相反，国家通过在其居住地提供福利来补贴劳动力，即使它利用的是选举权力较小的国家间移徙劳动力。
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on state rescaling by examining how processes of restructuring in late transitioning countries like India shape spaces of collective action for labour. India’s subnational States, which have become increasingly critical scales for shaping processes of economic restructuring, face competing governance imperatives. On one hand, they must offer a business-friendly environment, including cheap labour, in order to attract private investments. On the other hand, in a democratic polity, they are compelled to secure political power through electoral appeal to labour. Through a study of labour regimes in the southern State of Tamil Nadu, I argue that subnational governments have responded to this challenge by enabling a scale of labour governance that undermines labour’s ability to engage with new spaces of collective action opened up by reforms and globalization. Rather, the State subsidizes labour through welfare provisioning in their residential spaces even as it draws upon inter-State migrant labour that wields less electoral power.