- ISBN: 9780415566094 | 0415566096
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/21/2010
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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