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Informal Labour in Urban India - Three Cities, Three Journeys (Paperback)
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Informal Labour in Urban India - Three Cities, Three Journeys (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
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During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development
in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal
labour. Using case studies from three urban regions, this book
examines this growth in modern India's cities and towns. It argues
that India has undergone a process of uneven and combined
development during its integration with the world economy, leading
to a distorted form of urban development. This book is about work
and resistance in India's massive 'informal economy'. It looks at
the growth of informal labour in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi
during an era of neoliberal economic policymaking. Going beyond
mainstream accounts, it argues that India's rapid economic
development has been based upon the mass employment of workers on
low wages who lack basic social protection and rights at work. It
discusses how urban development in India is characterised by a
combination of industrialisation, industrial relocation,
restructuring and informalisation. Departing from some existing
studies of de-industrialisation, it re-frames informalisation as a
process that complements, rather than contradicts, contemporary
industrialisation in rapidly-emerging economies. The book adopts a
'classes of labour' approach, classifying each case of informal
labour as a specific 'form of exploitation': as a different way for
employers to lower production costs, control workers and increase
enterprise flexibility. Offering a critique of existing data on the
measurement and monitoring of informal labour and employment, the
book is relevant to students and scholars of Development Studies,
International Political Economy and South Asian Studies.
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