Footloose labour : working in India's informal economy /

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Author / Creator:Breman, Jan.
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:ix, 278 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary South Asia ; 2
Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ; 2.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2555457
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ISBN:0521560837
0521568242 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction.  |t Micro-research within a macro-framework.  |t The informal sector reconsidered.  |t Global setting.  |t Account of research and fieldwork.  |t Composition of the study --  |g 2.  |t Changing profile of rural labour.  |t Non-agrarian work identities in Chikhligam and Gandevigam.  |t Out-migration for work.  |t Sojourners.  |t Seasonal migration --  |g 3.  |t Inflow of labour into south Gujarat.  |t Urban order and economy.  |t Industrial labour in the informal sector.  |t Rotation in the urban work arena.  |t Influx in the rural hinterland.  |t Agrarian labour migrants in Gandevigam and Chikhligam --  |g 4.  |t Contact between demand and supply.  |t Labour market in a state of flux.  |t Mediation.  |t The jobber-gang boss as labour broker.  |t Debt bondage --  |g 5.  |t Quality of the labour process.  |t Informal training for work.  |t Use of technology.  |t Working hours.  |t Degradation in the labour process --  |g 6.  |t Mode of wage payment and secondary labour conditions.  |t Wages.  |t Payment.  |t The principle of contracting and sub-contracting.  |t Bondage.  |t Secondary terms of employment --  |g 7.  |t State care for unregulated labour.  |t Slow and differential access to formal sector employment.  |t Regulations covering employment in the unprotected sector.  |t Implementation.  |t Unbinding labour --  |g 8.  |t Proletarian life and social consciousness.  |t Adrift?  |t Control and escape.  |t Social struggle.  |t Inclusion and exclusion: widening circles of identification. 
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