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Of poverty and plastic : Scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy

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Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2010Description: 280p xviiiISBN:
  • 9780198060864
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.013100 GIL
Contents:
Contents: Title Pages; Photographs; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The City of Delhi; 3 Waste as Informal Sector Work; 4 Interlinked Contracts and Social Power; 5 Exploitation or Entrepreneurship?; 6 From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress; 7 ‘Bourgeois Environmentalism’, the State, the Judiciary, and the ‘Urban Poor’; 8 Conclusion; Appendix: Plastics; Bibliography; Index.
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Contents:
Title Pages;
Photographs;
Tables, Figures, and Boxes;
Foreword;
Acknowledgements;
Abbreviations;
1 Introduction;
2 The City of Delhi;
3 Waste as Informal Sector Work;
4 Interlinked Contracts and Social Power;
5 Exploitation or Entrepreneurship?;
6 From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress;
7 ‘Bourgeois Environmentalism’, the State, the Judiciary, and the ‘Urban Poor’;
8 Conclusion;
Appendix: Plastics;
Bibliography;
Index.

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