Of poverty and plastic: scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy/ Kaveri Gill
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xix, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780198060864Other title: Scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economySubject(s): Plastics industry and trade -- India | Ragpickers | Plastic scrap | Recycling industry | Economic historyDDC classification: 362.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 362.5 GIL/O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P10921 |
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.
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