At Work in the Informal Economy of India A Perspective from the Bottom Up (OIP)

by Breman, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780199467716
• ISBN10: 0199467714
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-09-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jan Breman, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Honorary Fellow with the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

Jan Breman is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Honorary Fellow with the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

AT WORK IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY OF INDIA
List of Tables
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Political Economy of Dualism
2. A Short History of the Informal Sector
3. At Work
4. Circulation and Immobilization of Labour
5. Social Profile and Locale
6. Resistance to Exclusion and Coping with Insecurity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
SELECTED READINGS
Publishers Acknowledgement
1. The Market for Non-agrarian Labour: The Formal versus
Informal Sector
2. The Study of Industrial Labour in Post-colonial India:
The Formal SectorAn Introductory Review
3. A Question of Poverty
4. Quality of the Labour Process
5. The Expulsion of Labour from the Formal Sector
of the Economy
6. Neo-bondage: A Fieldwork-based Account
7. Proletarian Life and Social Consciousness
8. Informality as a Regime of Exploitation and
Marginalization
9. Myths of the Global Safety Net
10. The Eventual Return of Social Darwinism
Bibliography
About the Author