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State University of New York Press Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers' Politics in India (SUNY series in Global Modernity)

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Honorable Mention, 2018 Global Division Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Historically, the Indian state has not offered welfare and social rights to all of its citizens, yet a remarkable characteristic of its polity has been the ability of citizens to dissent in a democratic way. In Undervalued Dissent, Manjusha Nair argues that this democratic space has been vanishing slowly. Based on extensive fieldwork in Chhattisgarh, a regional state in central India, this book examines two different informal workers' movements. Informal workers are not part of organized labor unions and make up eighty-five percent of the Indian workforce. The first movement started in 1977 and was a success, while the other movement began in 1989 and still continues today, without success. The workers in both movements had similar backgrounds, skills, demands, and strategies. Nair maintains that the first movement succeeded because the workers contended within a labor regime that allowed space for democratic dissent, and the second movement failed because they contested within a widely altered labor regime following neoliberal reforms, where these spaces of democratic dissent were preempted. The key difference between the two regimes, Nair suggests, is not in the withdrawal of a prolabor state from its protective and regulatory role, as has been argued by many, but rather in the rise of a new kind of state that became functionally decentralized, economically predatory, and politically communalized. These changes, Nair concludes, successfully de-democratized labor politics in India. Review "This book is an important contribution in several ways. There are not many books on the historical sociology of social mobilisations in post-colonial India; this is a welcome addition to the literature. The book is of modest length; Nair proves that we do not need to write tomes to make great books ... In time, this book may well come to be considered among the pioneering works on the topic." -- Asian Journal of Social Science "This book is a significant contribution to a growing understanding of the precarious nature of work, be it in formal or informal sectors." -- Economic and Political Weekly About the Author Manjusha Nair is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

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Brand: State University of New York Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 143846245X
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
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Release Date: 01 December 2016
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