Workers in the informal sector : studies in labour history, 1800-2000 /

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Imprint:Delhi : Macmillan India Ltd., in association with South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development, 2005.
Description:viii, 220 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5775287
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Other authors / contributors:Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, 1938-
Lucassen, Jan.
SEPHIS (Programme : Netherlands)
ISBN:1403925038
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Contributed papers presented at a workshop held in Mexico City.
Table of Contents:
  • Informalisation in history / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen
  • Conceptualising the world working class / Marcel van Der Linden
  • Two worlds apart? : labour and crime in Latin American history / Carlos Aguirre
  • Regulated informality : legal constructions of labour relations in colonial India, 1814-1926 / Prabhu Mohapatra
  • Calibrated indifference : understanding the structure of informal labour in India / Dilip Simeon
  • Globalisation and informalisation in Thailand / Voravidh Charoenloet
  • New forms of remuneration for labour in Congo-Kinshasa's economy of favours / Janet MacGaffey
  • Between work and domesticity : gender and household strategies in working class families / Chitra Joshi
  • The expulsion of labour from the formal sector of the economy / Jan Brenman.