Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women's Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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ISBN: 9780415566094 | 0415566096
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Copyright: 7/21/2010

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This book makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers.

List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Non-recognition and exclusion	p. 2
Putting work-life experience centre-stage	p. 3
Themes and structure of the book	p. 4
Reconceptualising labour in the informal economy	p. 4
Informal work-life 'problems' and strategies for reform	p. 5
The social foundations of economic development	p. 6
Social struggle and the politics of development	p. 6
Unravelling the informal sector debate	p. 8
The informal sector debate in historical perspective	p. 11
The enterprise, markets and the state	p. 12
The International Labour Organisation in the 1970s	p. 13
The World Bank	p. 14
Hernando de Soto: Economic populist	p. 16
Neo-Marxist approaches to the informal sector: Modes of production	p. 17
The marginalist approach: Autonomy and subordination	p. 18
Critiquing economic dualism: Integration and subordination	p. 18
Petty commodity production	p. 19
'Informalisation': An alternative approach	p. 20
New definitions and measures	p. 22
Counting women in the informal economy	p. 23
Engendering the analysis	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 27
Reconceptualising labour in the informal sector debate	p. 29
Labour in the informal sector debate	p. 29
Human capital theory	p. 30
Sen's capabilities approach	p. 31
Labour: a Marxist account	p. 36
The social relations of informal production	p. 37
Own-account worker	p. 38
Daily/casual labour	p. 39
Industrial outworking	p. 39
The relations and conditions of reproduction	p. 40
The reproduction of labour power	p. 41
The conditions of reproduction	p. 41
The social relations of reproduction	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 43
Exploring a labour-focused strategy for productivity and well-being in the informal economy: Background and method	p. 46
The Self Employed Women's Association	p. 47
Labour and the indian informal economy	p. 49
Methodology	p. 52
Sampling and recruiting	p. 52
Data collection	p. 53
Data processing and analysis	p. 56
Using fieldwork data	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 57
Mapping 'problems': Work-life experience in the Indian informal economy	p. 58
Defining 'problems' at the macro-level	p. 61
Defining 'problems' at the meso-level	p. 63
Structural subordination and exploitative social relations of production	p. 63
Restricted access to productive inputs	p. 65
Low income and poor work conditions	p. 67
Defining 'problems' at the micro-level	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 72
Interventions for work-life improvement: The case of the Self Employed Women's Association	p. 73
SEWA: Organising workers for full-employment and self-reliance	p. 73
Building recognition at the macro-level	p. 76
In the Gandhian way: Identity, values and strategy	p. 80
Building alternative economic institutions at the meso-level	p. 83
Trade co-operatives	p. 83
The Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank	p. 85
Social security co-operatives and services	p. 86
Tripartite trade agreements	p. 87
Information clearinghouse	p. 81
Building capacity at the micro-level	p. 89
Collective action and socio-economic change	p. 93
Conclusion	p. 94
The moral dynamics of union membership	p. 96
Poverty and the culture of fear	p. 96
Transforming fear: becoming bold	p. 98
Psychological well-being and participation in the political economy	p. 99
Honneth's theory of moral injury	p. 100
Relations of recognition and respect	p. 101
Moral injury: Women working in the informal economy	p. 103
SEWA: Renegotiating the social relations of recognition and respect	p. 104
Resocialising work: Building independence and self-confidence	p. 104
Speaking out and staking a claim	p. 107
Status, respect and recognition: A public identity	p. 109
Conclusion: Being and doing	p. 112
Agency, freedom and economic development	p. 115
Union membership: Producing worker identity and agency	p. 115
The dialectics of agency	p. 118
Union membership: The 'means' and the 'ends' of socio-economic well-being	p. 119
Agency: The mechanics of 'empowerment'	p. 120
Agency in the capabilities approach	p. 126
Agency, freedom and capabilities	p. 127
Nussbaum's 'combined capabilities'	p. 130
Worker agency and economic development	p. 131
Revisiting the recognition-redistribution dilemma	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 135
Public action for economic development	p. 136
'Public action'	p. 136
Advocating for public action	p. 139
'Formalising' and 'mainstreaming': Public action and the informal economy	p. 142
State action for development: Contested terrain	p. 146
The World Bank	p. 147
Scholars of Indian labour	p. 148
The International Labour Organisation and 'decent work'	p. 150
Democratising 'the economy'	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 154
The politics of economic development	p. 155
Social capital formation at SEWA: the foundation of public action	p. 157
The struggle for a voice and an organisation	p. 158
Social capital, public action and power	p. 159
Monopoly political and economic power in the Dumali dairy market	p. 160
Death threats and childcare in Kheda district	p. 161
Resistance and harassment: A tripartite agreement for agarbatti workers	p. 162
Social capital and the sexual division of labour	p. 165
The politics of economic development	p. 170
'Politically led development': towards a critical appreciation of politics, power and conflict	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 175
Conclusion - worker identity, agency and economic development	p. 177
Gujarat: A short profile	p. 182
SEWA members interviewed for the study	p. 184
Notes	p. 188
Bibliography	p. 194
Index	p. 206
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