SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A PRODUCT OF CLASS MOBILIZATION AND STATE INTERVENTION - INDUSTRIAL-WORKERS IN KERALA, INDIA

This paper argues that state intervention and class mobilization in th e state of Kerala, India, have produced two forms of social capital. K erala's high level of social development and successful; redistributiv e reforms are a direct result of mutually reinforcing interactions bet ween a programmatic labor movement and a democratic state. This synerg y between state and labor has also created the institutional forms and political processes required for negotiating the class compromises th rough which redistribution and growth can be reconciled. These dynamic s are explored through a close examination of both the organized facto ry sector and the unorganized (informal) sector. Copyright (C) 1996 El sevier Science Ltd