Footloose Labour
Working in India's Informal Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23396147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Breman (0000-0002-0555-4315, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Footloose Labour (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139171076 |
| OpenAlex | W1836282985 |
| Open Library | OL51661701M |
| ISBN | 9781139171076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 326 |
In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Caste · Casual · Destinations · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Identity (music) · Informal sector · Labour economics · Livelihood · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tourism · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law
Viral Loads
Social (in)security and social policy for gig workers in South Asia
Is Migration Status a Determinant of Urban Nutrition Insecurity? Empirical Evidence From Mumbai City, India
Price of productivity – forced hysterectomies and gendered labour politics of sugarcane harvesters in Maharashtra
Claiming the State
The chimera of new forms of worker organisation
From distress migration to selective migration
A Short History of the Informal Economy
Soberania alimentar
(Mis)Representing Economy
Agricultural cooperatives in Gujarat, India
Surplus population in-situ
Emerging Consensus on Labour Market Institutions and Implications for Developing Countries
The Inheritance of Precarious Labor
Work and Wellbeing in Informal Economies
Economic growth and the persistence of child labor
Social Capital as Obstacle to Development
Building back better? Resilience as wellbeing for rural migrant households in Bihar, India
Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy
Growth of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities, and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India
What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania
Land Reform in Southern Africa in World-Historical Perspective
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during Covid-19
Multinational Maids
Chronic poverty and entitlement theory
Rumo a uma nova conceituação histórica da classe trabalhadora mundial
Expectations and rewards of modernity
Asking for and giving baki
Circular migration and rural cosmopolitanism in India
Migration, modernity and social transformation in South Asia
The badli system in industrial labour recruitment
Exploitation and Liberation
Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India
Rural poverty and poverty alleviation in Mozambique
Why growth is not enough
Competing Inequalities
Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India. II
Select Bibliography
Fuelling global production networks with slave labour
You can call it a Mufassil Town, but nothing less”
Walking with the Subalterns’
Subaltern counter-urbanism
Informality and lead firm dominance in the sub-contracting chain
Export-Oriented Employment, Poverty and Gender
Labour History in India and South Africa
The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics
Classes of Labour in India
Relative surplus populations and the crises of contemporary capitalism
The uneven and combined development of racial capitalism and South Africa’s changing race-class articulations
Patronage as Politics in South Asia
The Job Ladder
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology
Roadwork
Ritual Hierarchies, Land, and Labour
NGOs and Organizational Change
Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children
NGO Behavior and Development Discourse
Shifting agrarian labour regimes, ecology, and the crisis for Dalit women’s work in India
Power and the Durability of Poverty
Contesting, (Re)producing or Surviving Precarity? Debates on Precarious Work and Informal Labor Reexamined
Unnoyon, chakri and the toto
Mass exodus of India’s internal migrant labourers during the first phase of Covid-19
Value theories in motion
Mapping the Impact of Globalization on the Lives of Rural Women in India
Gate-Cane
The long walk home
Thresholds of In/Visibility and the Scopic Power of Literature
Urban evolution and social change
Adult Children’s Migration and Well-being of Left-Behind Elderly Parents in an Out-Migration-Prone Region of India
Beyond the prism of rural to urban and voluntary-involuntary in India
Seasonal Migration from Beed District of Maharashtra
Odia Dalit Migrants in Hyderabad City
State spatial restructuring, subnational politics and emerging spaces of engagement for collective action
Caste-based migration and exposure to abuse and exploitation
Understanding the Nature of Rural Change
From the home to the World
Retracted
Capitalist agriculture and the creation of the circular migrant
Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production
In search of better life
Globalization and Its Countermovement
Socioeconomic Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in India
Determinants of temporary labour migration in southern India
Towards contextualised, disaggregated and intersectional understandings of migration in India
Eating out
India’s pandemic
The Poverty of the Global Order
Does climatic risk induce labour migration? Evidence from Semi‐Arid Tropics region of India
Maintaining the order’
Dual Powers, Class Compositions, and the Venezuelan People
The informalization of capital and interlocking in labour contracting networks
The uses of education
The illusion of home and belongingness
The making of a peripheral town in Delhi Metropolis through the displacement of Basti dwellers
As long as I can’
Workers on the move
No city for migrant women
Transient spaces, temporary alliances
Globalization, labor standards, and women's rights
Against the Current, From Below
| Unique citing works | 326 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,24 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 277 |