Outcast Labour in Asia : Circulation and Informalization of the Workforce at the Bottom of the ...
ISBN: 9780198089438 | 0198089430
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/18/2013
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Drawing from the author's extensive fieldwork, this collection of essays examines labour located at the bottom of the rural socio-economic ladder trying to seek a foothold in the urban economy. The volume demonstrates the ways in which this vulnerable group is excluded from a stable and dignified life. The book also highlights the effects of recent policies of globalization on labour.
Written from 1999 onwards, these essays focus on labour at the bottom of the rural economy, lacking social, economic, and political ... MORE
Written from 1999 onwards, these essays focus on labour at the bottom of the rural economy, lacking social, economic, and political ... MORE
Preface
Publisher's Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviation
Introduction: The Great Transformation in the Setting of Asia
I. The Agrarian Background
1. Labour and Landlessness in South and Southeast Asia
2. The Political Economy of Agrarian Change
II. Leaving the Village Behind
3. Coming to Kolkata: Pathways to a Better Life or Lost in Dead-end Alleys?
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5. Slumlands
III. The Urban Economy and its Workforce
6. Industrial Labour in Post-colonial India: The Early Beginnings
7. Industrial Labour in Post-colonial India: Getting Rid of Formal Sector Employment
IV. The Exodus of Rural Labour
8. The Informal Sector of India's Economy
9. Labour Migration from Rural to Urban China
V. The Dynamics of Exclusion
10. Social Exclusion in the Context of Globalization
11. The Political Economy of Unfree Labour in South Asia: Determining the Nature and Magnitude of Debt Bondage
12. Myths of the Global Safety Net
13. The Eventual Return of Social Darwinism
Index
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