01809nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000090007604100080008508200230009310000150011624500760013126000450020730000280025236500660028052011460034665000330149265000200152565000290154570000170157420221103112708.0220615b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780198090342  cAloy  aeng  223a338.0954bBREW  aJan Breman  aWork in the informal economy of India:bA perspectve from the bottom up  aNew DelhibOxford University Pressc2021  axiv,457p.bPBc22x14cm.  2Political Sciencea1743b532.00c₹d665.00e20%f13-06-2022  aWhile discussing labor being pushed out of agriculture, Jan Breman analyses why, when and how this massive shift in production and employment came about. The book results from his anthropological fieldwork conducted in Gujarat on record as the state with the highest rate of economic growth spanning over five decades. Although centered on one Indian state, the issues highlighted have much wider resonance, as South Asia is at the epicenter of the informal economy. The book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the past and present path of capitalism and dwells on the abominable condition of the unorganized workforce and the commodification of labor. The second part comprises of the author's 10 previously published studies based on his long grounded research focused on the informal economy and elaborates on themes and issues introduced in the first part of the book. This part also familiarizes the reader with the concept of informality and its ramifications. The book examines the labor regime that, in the past decades, has become dominant in the world at large and is framed in the concept of the informal economy.  aPolitical Economy of Dualism  aInformal Sector  aImmobilization of Labour  aBREMAN (Jan)