Politics and the Right to Work

India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20001833
AutoresRob Jenkins (0000-0003-4793-0435), James Manor, Robert Jenkins (0000-0001-7386-8140)
Año2017
Páginas288
Fecha de publicación2017-05-17
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPolitics and the Right to Work (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608309.001.0001
OpenAlexW4255028319
Open LibraryOL28824322M
ISBN9780190608309
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), passed in 2005, has been among the developing world's most ambitious anti-poverty initiatives. By “guaranteeing” 100 days of work annually to every rural household, NREGA sought to advance the Indian constitution's commitment to securing citizens’ “right to work”. This book is not a technical evaluation of program performance. It offers instead a detailed analysis of the politics surrounding NREGA: the model of political action that motivated its architects, the public advocacy and parliamentary maneuvering involved in its passage, the political dynamics shaping implementation at state and local levels, the institutional constraints on reforming how it operates, and its complex impacts on public policy debates about governance and development as well as on the political capacities of poor people. Based on their extensive – primarily qualitative – field research, the authors examine changing conceptions of rights and the challenges of making states more accountable to their most disadvantaged citizens. Their analysis of the politics of NREGA provides a window onto the inner workings of Indian democracy and the complex character of the Indian state as it attempts to upgrade its social welfare provision to something more in keeping with the enhanced economic stature the country over the past few decades

Civil society · Collective action · Constitution · Corporate governance · Democracy · Disadvantaged · Economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Agricultural risk and resilience · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · employment · India · Manpower policy · Right to labor · Rural Manpower policy · Rural poor · Social conditions