Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-268) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The city of Delhi -- Waste as informal sector work : measuring income poverty, inequality, and deprivation -- Interlinked contracts and social power : patronage and exploitation in the waste recovery market -- Exploitation or entrepreneurship? Scrap traders and the economics of survival in the informal economy -- From pigs and pollution to plastics and progress : recasting low caste status through an informal market -- 'Bourgeois environmentalism', the state, the judiciary, and the 'urban poor' : the political mobilization of a scheduled caste market -- Conclusion.
Summary:
On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi.
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