Workers in the informal sector
Subtitle: studies in labour history, 1800-2000
By: editors, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Jan Lucassen.
Contributors: Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, 1938-; Lucassen, Jan.; SEPHIS (Programme : Netherlands)
Publisher: Macmillan India Ltd., in association with South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Informal sector (Economics) -- India -- Congresses.; Labor supply -- India -- Congresses.; Income distribution -- India -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Contributed papers presented at a workshop held in Mexico City.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Informalisation in history / Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen; title: Conceptualising the world working class / Marcel van Der Linden; title: Two worlds apart? : labour and crime in Latin American history / Carlos Aguirre; title: Regulated informality : legal constructions of labour relations in colonial India, 1814-1926 / Prabhu Mohapatra; title: Calibrated indifference : understanding the structure of informal labour in India / Dilip Simeon; title: Globalisation and informalisation in Thailand / Voravidh Charoenloet; title: New forms of remuneration for labour in Congo-Kinshasa's economy of favours / Janet MacGaffey; title: Between work and domesticity : gender and household strategies in working class families / Chitra Joshi; title: The expulsion of labour from the formal sector of the economy / Jan Brenman.