Footloose Labour
Footloose Labour
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USDIn a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labor market, depend on casual work. By considering two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilization of casual labor, demonstrating that this is characteristic of an employment pattern that dominates the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author shows that little has been done to improve their quality of life, which is defined by caste and class relations.
- A sympathetic and penetrating account of migrant labour in India
- Author is a highly distinguished scholar in the field
- Interdisciplinary study which will appeal not only to South Asianists, but also to economists, anthropologists and historians
Reviews & endorsements
'The author has been working in the economy of South Gujerat for half a lifetime, and his knowledge of it, and particularly of labourers within it, is profound.' Asian Affairs
Product details
September 1996Paperback
9780521568241
292 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.43kg
1 map
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Changing profile of rural labour
- 2. Inflow of labour into south Gujarat
- 3. Contact between demand and supply
- 4. Quality of the labour process
- 5. Mode of wage payment and secondary labour conditions
- 6. State care for unregulated labour
- 7. Proletarian life and social consciousness.
