Outcast Labour in Asia

Circulation and Informalization of the Workforce at the Bottom of the Economy

Jan Breman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

404 Seiten

2012
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-808943-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing from the author's extensive fieldwork, this collection of essays examines labour located at the bottom of the rural socio-economic ladder trying to seek a foothold in the urban economy. The volume demonstrates the ways in which this vulnerable group is excluded from a stable and dignified life. The book also highlights the effects of recent policies of globalization on labour.

Written from 1999 onwards, these essays focus on labour at the bottom of the rural economy, lacking social, economic, and political wherewithal, and their struggles to find a foothold in the urban economy. The author draws on his extensive fieldwork from India, Indonesia, and China. The volume demonstrates that this extremely vulnerable group is largely excluded from a life of dignity, stability, and decent work and the recent policies of globalization have only worsened their prospects of escape from this wretched existence.

This book is crucial to the debates about labour and development studies in the current climate of globalization. It raises and answers important questions pertaining to the dynamics of life and work at the lower rungs of society.

Jan Breman is Professor Emeritus and Fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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

Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 216 mm
Gewicht	398 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-808943-0 / 0198089430
ISBN-13	978-0-19-808943-8 / 9780198089438
Zustand	Neuware