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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      13 September 1996
      ISBN:
      9781139171076
      9780521560832
      9780521568241
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171076
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 290 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.529kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Area Studies, International Economics, Asian Studies, Economic Development and Growth
      Series:
      Contemporary South Asia (2)
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Area Studies, International Economics, Asian Studies, Economic Development and Growth
    Series:
    Contemporary South Asia (2)
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    In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.

    Awards

    Winner of the Edgar Graham Book Prize 1998

    Reviews

    ‘The author has been working in the economy of South Gujerat for half a lifetime, and his knowledge of it, and particularly of labourers within it, is profound.’

    Source: Asian Affairs

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