TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill, Kaveri
TI  - Of poverty and plastic: scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy
SN  - 9780198060864
U1  - 362.5 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Plastics industry and trade
KW  - India
KW  - Ragpickers
KW  - Plastic scrap
KW  - Recycling industry
KW  - Economic history
N1  - Introduction --
The city of Delhi --
Waste as informal sector work : measuring income poverty, inequality, and deprivation --
Interlinked contracts and social power : patronage and exploitation in the waste recovery market --
Exploitation or entrepreneurship? Scrap traders and the economics of survival in the informal economy --
From pigs and pollution to plastics and progress : recasting low caste status through an informal market --
'Bourgeois environmentalism', the state, the judiciary, and the 'urban poor' : the political mobilization of a scheduled caste market --
Conclusion
ER  -