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Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy
Contributor(s): Breman, Jan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1139171070     ISBN-13: 9781139171076
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Published: June 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | International - Economics
Dewey: 331.5
Series: Contemporary South Asia
 
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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labor market, depend on casual work. By considering two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilization of casual labor, demonstrating that this is characteristic of an employment pattern that dominates the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author shows that little has been done to improve their quality of life, which is defined by caste and class relations.
 
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