Satyaki Roy is Associate Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. His initial research focuses on industrial clusters in India and the nature of spatial concentration of production in the context of late industrialisation. His work on industries focuses on labour intensive sectors such as garments, leather, foundries as well as developments in automobiles and surgical instruments. He has worked on various projects sponsored by the ICSSR, Planning Commission, GOI, Department of Science and Technology, GOI and intercountry comparative studies sponsored by IDRC, Canada and IDE, Japan. Besides his continued interest on industrialisation and regional development he has worked and published extensively on diverse issues related to labour and employment, structural change in India and the emerging trends in the manufacturing sector; growth and human development in India and political economy of informality. His current areas of interest include global production network, its implications on the process of industrialisation in developing countries and the emerging nature of global hegemony in the context of globalisation.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate; 3. Global production network: India and developing countries; 4. Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector; 5. Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture; 6. Informality: regime of exclusion and discourse of power; 7. Self-employment as disguised dispossession; 8. Land acquisition in India: revisiting primitive accumulation; 9. Decoding resistance and class formation in neoliberal regime; 10. Conclusion; Index.

Satyaki Roy is Associate Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. His initial research focuses on industrial clusters in India and the nature of spatial concentration of production in the context of late industrialisation. His work on industries focuses on labour intensive sectors such as garments, leather, foundries as well as developments in automobiles and surgical instruments. He has worked on various projects sponsored by the ICSSR, Planning Commission, GOI, Department of Science and Technology, GOI and intercountry comparative studies sponsored by IDRC, Canada and IDE, Japan. Besides his continued interest on industrialisation and regional development he has worked and published extensively on diverse issues related to labour and employment, structural change in India and the emerging trends in the manufacturing sector; growth and human development in India and political economy of informality. His current areas of interest include global production network, its implications on the process of industrialisation in developing countries and the emerging nature of global hegemony in the context of globalisation.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate; 3. Global production network: India and developing countries; 4. Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector; 5. Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture; 6. Informality: regime of exclusion and discourse of power; 7. Self-employment as disguised dispossession; 8. Land acquisition in India: revisiting primitive accumulation; 9. Decoding resistance and class formation in neoliberal regime; 10. Conclusion; Index.

Satyaki Roy is Associate Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. His initial research focuses on industrial clusters in India and the nature of spatial concentration of production in the context of late industrialisation. His work on industries focuses on labour intensive sectors such as garments, leather, foundries as well as developments in automobiles and surgical instruments. He has worked on various projects sponsored by the ICSSR, Planning Commission, GOI, Department of Science and Technology, GOI and intercountry comparative studies sponsored by IDRC, Canada and IDE, Japan. Besides his continued interest on industrialisation and regional development he has worked and published extensively on diverse issues related to labour and employment, structural change in India and the emerging trends in the manufacturing sector; growth and human development in India and political economy of informality. His current areas of interest include global production network, its implications on the process of industrialisation in developing countries and the emerging nature of global hegemony in the context of globalisation.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate; 3. Global production network: India and developing countries; 4. Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector; 5. Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture; 6. Informality: regime of exclusion and discourse of power; 7. Self-employment as disguised dispossession; 8. Land acquisition in India: revisiting primitive accumulation; 9. Decoding resistance and class formation in neoliberal regime; 10. Conclusion; Index.