Screen LibraryInfrastructure redux : crisis, progress in industrial Pakistan and beyond /
"Pakistan's economy is currently semi-industrialized, but it has the high potential for prosperity in the 21st century. The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports. It looks at how these...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Pakistan's economy is currently semi-industrialized, but it has the high potential for prosperity in the 21st century. The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports. It looks at how these infrastructures underpin visions of progress and mediate relations between the state and capitalist firms in export-oriented industrial and industrializing districts in Punjab, Pakistan.Infrastructure Redux explores infrastructure's affect in two ways: (1) by examining the impact of poor infrastructure on d |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index. |
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9781137448163 (hardback) : 1137448164 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HC440 |
| CLC: | F135.31 |
| Call Number: | F135.31/A637 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Pathways to Progress -- 1. History, Ideas, Visions -- 2. Disrupted Mobilities -- 3. Power Breakdowns -- 4. Whither Labor? -- Conclusion: Infrastructure's Promise. |