Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781107314412
1107314410
9781107312210
1107312213
9781107025721
1107025729
9781107663084
1107663083
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. This book offers a fresh and provocative look into the alternative social movements informal workers in India are launching. It also offers a unique analysis of the conditions under which these movements succeed or fail. Drawing from 300 interviews with informal workers, government officials and union leaders, Rina Agarwala argues that Indian informal workers are using their power as voters to demand welfare benefits from the state, rather than demanding traditional work benefits from employers. In addition, they are organizing at the neighborhood level, rather than the shop floor, and appealing to 'citizenship', rather than labor rights."--Provided by publisher.
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| Other form: | Print version: Agarwala, Rina, 1973- Informal labor, formal politics, and dignified discontent in India. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107025721
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