scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy Gill, Kaveri. creator text bibliography ii New Delhi Oxford University Press 2010 monographic eng

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xix, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi. 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. Kaveri Gill. Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index. Also available online (Table of contents) Plastics industry and trade India Delhi Ragpickers India Delhi Plastic scrap Economic aspects India India Economic conditions HD9661.A4-ZI.x3A-ZD (H20)+ 362.5 GIO 2010 9780198060864 0198060866 2009305739 DLC 091222 20181210012957.0 eng