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OverviewLow industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods. Street vending is one such thriving source of self-employment across cities. This book delves into the sustenance and survival strategies of street ven Full Product DetailsAuthor: Debdulal Saha (Assistant Professor,Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus, Assam, India)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge India Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9780367177263ISBN 10: 0367177269 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 25 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street Vendors in Urban India is an important contribution to the growing field of global labour studies. It is the most comprehensive study we have of street vending. In its combination of rigorous scholarship and commitment to policies that give an institutional voice to these new political subjects of labour , Debdulal Saha has provided us with a template for future studies of street vending across the globe.' Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Author InformationDebdulal Saha is Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator of Labour Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati campus, Assam, India. Prior to joining TISS, he was post-doctoral fellow at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests are development economics, labour studies, informal economy and livelihoods. He is co-author of Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy (2013) and co-editor of The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor (2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |