How Long to Read The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

How Long Does it Take to Read The Underbelly of the Indian Boom?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read The Underbelly of the Indian Boom by Stuart Corbridge

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu, but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the country's greatest security challenge, where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.

How long is The Underbelly of the Indian Boom?

The Underbelly of the Indian Boom by Stuart Corbridge is 180 pages long, and a total of 45,000 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Underbelly of the Indian Boom Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 5 minutes to read The Underbelly of the Indian Boom aloud.

What Reading Level is The Underbelly of the Indian Boom?

The Underbelly of the Indian Boom is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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