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Precariat Organizing in India: A Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

Precariat Organizing in India: A Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Informal Labor,... 579085 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579085New Labor ForumBooks and the Arts research-article2015 New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 115 –128 Books and the Arts Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav nlf.sagepub.com Many revealing excerpts from these sources are Precariat Organizing in India: interlaced through the narrative. A Politics of Recognition and In India, as Agarwala explains, over 80 per- Redistribution cent of non-agricultural workers are “infor- Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified mal,” a figure that may seem shocking to a Discontent in India North American reader but that is not unusual By Rina Agarwala for the global South, past or present. However, Cambridge University Press, 2013 contrary to the widespread expectation that ISBN: 9781107663084 economic development and growth would lead Reviewed by: Ruth Milkman to the expansion of formal employment, in fact DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579085 the prevalence of informality has grown in India over recent years with neoliberal “reform” efforts. Both the bidi and construction indus- tries, crucially, operate with multiple layers of subcontracting—which among other things helps to explain the paradox that, despite the fact that informal workers lack formal employ- ment contracts, they are often referred to as “contract workers.” In India, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Precariat Organizing in India: A Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

Milkman, Ruth
New Labor Forum , Volume 24 (2): 3 – May 1, 2015
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579085 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579085New Labor ForumBooks and the Arts research-article2015 New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 115 –128 Books and the Arts Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav nlf.sagepub.com Many revealing excerpts from these sources are Precariat Organizing in India: interlaced through the narrative. A Politics of Recognition and In India, as Agarwala explains, over 80 per- Redistribution cent of non-agricultural workers are “infor- Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified mal,” a figure that may seem shocking to a Discontent in India North American reader but that is not unusual By Rina Agarwala for the global South, past or present. However, Cambridge University Press, 2013 contrary to the widespread expectation that ISBN: 9781107663084 economic development and growth would lead Reviewed by: Ruth Milkman to the expansion of formal employment, in fact DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579085 the prevalence of informality has grown in India over recent years with neoliberal “reform” efforts. Both the bidi and construction indus- tries, crucially, operate with multiple layers of subcontracting—which among other things helps to explain the paradox that, despite the fact that informal workers lack formal employ- ment contracts, they are often referred to as “contract workers.” In India,

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