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008 091222s2010 ii ab b 001 0 eng d
010 _a 2009305739
015 _2bnb
020 _a9780198060864
020 _a0198060866
025 _aI-E-2009-305739; 90-13
035 _a(OCoLC)477061639
035 _a4771188
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cBD-DhBPA
_dBD-DhBPA
050 0 0 _aHD9661.A4-ZI.x3A-ZD (H20)+
082 _a362.5
_bGIO 2010
100 1 _aGill, Kaveri.
_982578
245 1 0 _aOf poverty and plastic :
_bscavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy /
_cKaveri Gill.
246 3 0 _aScavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2010.
300 _axix, 280 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aFormerly CIP.
_5Uk
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index.
505 0 0 _aMachine 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.
520 _aOn the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi.
530 _aAlso available online (Table of contents)
590 _aNewaz
650 0 _aPlastics industry and trade
_zIndia
_zDelhi.
_975043
650 0 _aRagpickers
_zIndia
_zDelhi.
_982579
650 0 _aPlastic scrap
_xEconomic aspects
_zIndia.
_970343
651 0 _aIndia
_xEconomic conditions.
_982580
942 _2ddc
_cBK
999 _c29021
_d29021