Debdulal Saha

Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Street vendors in urban India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book delves into the sustenance and survival strategies of street vendors across seventeen cities in India and assesses the issues revolving around self-created markets, livelihood and politics that are contested in public space. It also presents a conceptual and theoretical understanding of different socio-economic and policy concerns pertaining to street vending in the country. The study shows how, despite the absence of legal frameworks and institutional support, these urban self-employed informal workers subsist by arranging ad hoc alternatives, creating informal institutions and negotiating with formal and informal actors in the market. It also discusses the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, and examines how inclusive the legal recognition is for these workers of informal economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134865086
• Artikelnr.: 49376625

Autorenporträt

Debdulal Saha is Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator of Labour Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati campus, Assam, India. Prior to joining TISS, he was post-doctoral fellow at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests are development economics, labour studies, informal economy and livelihoods. He is co-author of Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy (2013) and co-editor of The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Boxes. Tables. Foreword Sharit Bhowmik. Preface. Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations. Introduction: Street Vending in Informal Economy 1. Street
Vendors in Urban India: An Overview 2. Informal Markets: Structure,
Characteristics and Sustenance 3. Public Space, Politics and Survival
Strategies 4. Livelihood Insecurity, Uncertainty and Vulnerability 5.
Negotiations, Organisations and Collective Bargaining 6. Legislating Street
Vending: Challenges and Alternative Development Bibliography. Index