| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 280 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The city of Delhi -- Waste as informal sector work : measuring income poverty, inequality, and deprivation -- Interlinked contracts and social power : patronage and exploitation in the waste recovery market -- Exploitation or entrepreneurship? Scrap traders and the economics of survival in the informal economy -- From pigs and pollution to plastics and progress : recasting low caste status through an informal market -- 'Bourgeois environmentalism', the state, the judiciary, and the 'urban poor' : the political mobilization of a scheduled caste market -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book documents & analyses the various facets of labouring lives at different levels of the value chain in the waste scavenging & plastic recycling sector. It links the economic social, & political factors that structure the well-being agency, & activities of actors operating in this informal economy |
| Notes |
Print version9780198060864 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Recycling industry -- India
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Plastic scrap -- India
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Plastic scrap -- Economic aspects -- India
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Plastics -- Recycling -- Economic aspects -- India
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Plastics industry and trade -- India
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Poverty -- India
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Economic history
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Plastic scrap
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Plastics industry and trade
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Poverty
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Recycling industry
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Abfallwirtschaft
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Armut
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Kunststoffabfall
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Recycling
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064892
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| Subject |
India
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Delhi
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Indien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199080175 |
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0199080178 |
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