Rina Agarwala (The Johns Hopkins University)

Gebundenes Buch

Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

Beschreibung

Rina Agarwala investigates how vulnerable workers are organizing to improve their livelihoods in India. Drawing on 300 personal interviews with women workers in construction and tobacco, she finds these workers are launching an innovative movement to assert their rights.

Autor

Rina Agarwala is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Government from Cornell University, an MPP in Political and Economic Development from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. Agarwala is the co-editor of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia (2008). She has published articles on informal work and gender in the International Labor Journal, Political Science, Research in the Sociology of Work, Theory and Society, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Critical Asian Studies, Social Forces and the Indian Journal of Labour Economics. She has worked on international development and gender issues at the United Nations Development Program in China, the Self-Employed Women's Association in India, and Women's World Banking in New York.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025721
• ISBN-10: 1107025729
• Artikelnr.: 37294357