Gill, Kaveri <br/><br/>
Of poverty and plastic: scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy/ 
 Scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy 
Kaveri Gill 
 - New Delhi:  Oxford University Press,  2010. 
 - xix, 280 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction --<br/>The city of Delhi --<br/>Waste as informal sector work : measuring income poverty, inequality, and deprivation --<br/>Interlinked contracts and social power : patronage and exploitation in the waste recovery market --<br/>Exploitation or entrepreneurship? Scrap traders and the economics of survival in the informal economy --<br/>From pigs and pollution to plastics and progress : recasting low caste status through an informal market --<br/>'Bourgeois environmentalism', the state, the judiciary, and the 'urban poor' : the political mobilization of a scheduled caste market --<br/>Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198060864 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Plastics industry and trade--India<br/>Ragpickers<br/>Plastic scrap<br/>Recycling industry<br/>Economic history
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.5  / GIL/O