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Footloose labour : working in India's informal economy
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ISBN: 0521560837 0521568242 1139171070 9780521568241 Year: 1996 Volume: 2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.

Land, labor, and rural poverty : essays in development economics
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ISBN: 0231053886 0231053894 9780231053891 9780231053884 Year: 1984 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press,

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