TY - BOOK AU - Breman, Jan. TI - At work in the informal economy of India: a perspective from the bottom up SN - 9780198090342 U1 - 331.540954 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - India--Gujarat KW - Informal sector (Economics) KW - Capitalism KW - Economic history N1 - PART ONE: AT WORK IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY OF INDIA LIST OF TABLES ; PREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION ; 1. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DUALISM 2. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR 3. AT WORK ; 4. CIRCULATION AND IMMOBILIZATION OF LABOUR 5. SOCIAL PROFILE AND LOCALE 6. RESISTANCE TO EXCLUSION AND COPING WITH INSECURITY CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PART TWO: SELECTED READINGS LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. THE MARKET FOR NON-AGRARIAN LABOUR: THE FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL SECTOR 2. THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL LABOUR IN POST-COLONIAL INDIA: THE FORMAL SECTOR-AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW 3. A QUESTION OF POVERTY 4. THE QUALITY OF THE LABOUR PROCESS 5. THE EXPULSION OF LABOUR FROM THE FORMAL SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY 6. NEO-BONDAGE: A FIELDWORK-BASED ACCOUNT 7. PROLETARIAN LIFE AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS ; 8. INFORMALITY AS A REGIME OF EXPLOITATION AND MARGINALIZATION 9. MYTHS OF THE GLOBAL SAFETY NET 10. THE EVENTUAL RETURN OF SOCIAL DARWINISM BIBLIOGRAPHY ER -