02227nam a2200373 a 4500 20181210012957.0 091222s2010 ii ab b 001 0 eng d 2009305739 bnb 9780198060864 0198060866 I-E-2009-305739; 90-13 (OCoLC)477061639 4771188 DLC eng BD-DhBPA BD-DhBPA HD9661.A4-ZI.x3A-ZD (H20)+ 362.5 GIO 2010 Gill, Kaveri. 82578 Of poverty and plastic : scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy / Kaveri Gill. Scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010. xix, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Formerly CIP. Uk Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index. Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Photographs -- Map -- 1. Introduciton -- 2. The City of Delhi -- 3. Waste as Informal Sector Work: Measuring Income Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation -- 4. Interlinked Contracts and Social Power: Patronage and Exploitation in India's Waste Recovery Market -- 5. Exploitation or Entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the Economics of Survival in the Informal Market Economy -- 6. From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress: Recasting Low Caste Status in India's Expanding Informal Economy -- 7. 'Bourgeois Environmentalism', the State, the Judiciary and the Urban Poor: The Political Mobilization of a Scheduled Caste Market -- 8. Conclusion -- Methodological Note -- Plastics Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi. Also available online (Table of contents) Newaz Plastics industry and trade India Delhi. 75043 Ragpickers India Delhi. 82579 Plastic scrap Economic aspects India. 70343 India Economic conditions. 82580 ddc BK 29021 29021 0 ddc 0 0 BPATC BPATC GRR 2018-04-16 0 362.5 GIO 2010 97383 2018-04-16 00:00:00 2018-04-16 BK Newaz