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Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India : Dignifying Discontent.
This book examines informal workers' alternative social movements in India.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Informal Labor Organizes in Unique Classes; Distinguishing Classes of Informal Workers; Varying Industry Characteristics; 1.2 Informal Labor Organizes even under Neoliberalism; 1.3 States Condition Informal Labor Movement Effectiveness; 1.4 Informal Labor Movements Dignify Workers' Discontent; 2 Struggling with Informality; 2.1 Building a New Class Struggle; Beginning with the Traditional Workers' Struggle against an Employer; Launching an Alternative Struggle against the State.
- Workers' Welfare Boards: Operationalizing the New StruggleRecasting the Type of Worker, Form of Organization, and Tone of Struggle; 2.2 Creating a New Class Identity; Toward Social Legitimacy; Empowering Women; Focusing a Collective Identity through Selection and a Target; 2.3 Conclusions; 3 The Success of Competitive Populism; 3.1 Tamil Nadu: Substantial State Benefits for Informal Labor; 3.2 Populism: A Surviving Phenomenon; 3.3 Caste and Ethnic Nationalism Overlooks Informal Labor (1800-1977); Programmatic Caste and Ethnic Movements (1800-1947).
- Politicizing Anti-Brahmin Dravidians (1947-77)3.4 New Shades of Populism Protect Informal Labor (1977-present); 39 Project from Below: Framing Informal Labor as "Common" Voters39; 3.6 Project from Above: Capitalizing on Informal Labor Support; Political Benefits of Informal Workers: Securing Popular Support; Economic Benefits of Informal Workers: Reconciling Populism with Liberalization; 4 Communisms Resistance to Change; 4.1 West Bengal: Few to Some State Benefits for Informal Labor; A Shift in Attention; 4.2 Communism: A Radical Class Agenda for Social Justice.
- 4.3 Project from Above: Entrenching PowerReformist Rural Development; Reformist Urban Omission; 4.4 Project from Below: Failing to Fit into State Interests; CITU Unions in West Bengal: Targeting Neither the Employer Nor the State; Non-CITU Unions: Limited Effectiveness; 4.5 Shifting Politics: A Shift for Informal Labor; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 The Minimal Gains of Accommodation; 5.1 Maharashtra: Some State Benefits for Informal Labor; 5.2 Dominant Caste Power; Failed Opposition from the Left and Right; 5.3 Project from Above: Ensuring Economic Growth through Informal Labor.
- 5.4 Project from Below: Finding a Political Voice in the Economic AgendaFormal Workers Resist Liberalization and Private-Sector Industrialization; Informal Workers Make Strategic Organizational Choices; 5.5 Conclusions; 6 Conclusion; Implications for Labor, the State, and State-Labor Relations; Labor; State-Labor Relations; The State; Appendix I Photos of Informal Workers in Construction and Bidi; Appendix II The Evolution of the Count of Informal Workers; Appendix III Interview Methodology; References; Index.