Outcast labour in Asia : Circulation and informalization of the workforce at the bottom of the economy

By:

Breman Jan

Contributor(s):

Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2012Description: 391p xiISBN:

9780198089438

Subject(s):

1. Migrant Labor - Asia - Social Conditions - Eonomic Conditions2. People With Social Disabilities - Employment - Asia

DDC classification:

331.600000 BRE

Contents:

Table of contents 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?; 4. HOW TO FIND SPACE, SHOP AROUND, AND MOVE UP IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR; 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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Table of contents
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?;
4. HOW TO FIND SPACE, SHOP AROUND, AND MOVE UP IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR;
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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