The Political Economy of a Successful Cooperative Movement : A Kerala Experience
The case of Kerala proves that the sustainability of cooperative movement also depends on the political economy of it and the political culture around. The three cooperatives studied are contextualised in three different points of time. One in a Keynesian age, one during the anticolonial struggle...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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H. : ĐHKT
2020
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| Online Access: | http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/70547 |
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| Institution: | Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | The case of Kerala proves that the sustainability of cooperative movement also depends on the
political economy of it and the political culture around. The three cooperatives studied are
contextualised in three different points of time. One in a Keynesian age, one during the anticolonial
struggle and the third one emerged as a response to the agrarian crisis in the neoliberal
era. What is common about all three is that their emergence is strongly linked with the
working-class resistance or social reform movement. The vibrant and dynamic local tradition
of public action, adequate state support and higher density of grassroots social organisations
(Isaac and Williams 2017) transformed the cooperative movement in Kerala into a social and
political movement as well. And these political and social dimensions help the cooperative
movement in Kerala to overcome various limitations like a) its inner contradiction while facing
the competitive market b) Its self-exploitation of own labour c) low capital formation etc. |
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