Matter in motion: Work and livelihoods in India’s economy of waste

Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment in Globalizing India

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 95-111

  Harriss White, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formal work; India; Informal work; Poverty; Social discrimination; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034409090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3491-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

References (23)

1. Adnan, S. (2015). Primitive accumulation and the ‘transition to capitalism’ in neoliberal India: Mechanisms, resistance and the persistence of self-employed labour. In B. Harriss-White & J. Heyerv (Eds.), Indian capitalism in development (pp. 23-45). London: Routledge.
2. Anand, S. (2014, April 4). Death in the drains. The Hindu. Retrieved from http://www.thehindu. com/opinion/op-ed/deaths-in-the-drains/article5868090.ece.
3. Cavalcante, M. (2015). Feeling rich on an empty stomach: Agrarian crisis and rural consumption choices. In B. Harriss-White (Ed.), Middle India and urban-rural development: Four decades of change (pp. 251-274). Heidelberg and New Delhi: Springer.
4. Centre for Environment Education/CEE. (2014). Sourcebook on solid and liquid waste management in rural India. New Delhi: CEE.
5. Charsley, K. (1997). ‘Children of the forest’ or ‘backwards communities’? the ideology of tribal development. Edinburgh Papers in South Asian studies.
6. Demaria, F. (2010). Shipbreaking at Alang-Sosiya (India): An ecological distribution conflict. Ecological Economics, 70(2), 250-260.
7. Ehrenrich, B. (2014, January 13). It is expensive to be poor. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http:// www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/.
8. Gidwani, V. (2015). The work of waste: Inside India’s infra-economy. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 40(4), 575-595.
9. Gorringe, H. (2010). Shifting the ‘grindstone of caste’? Decreasing dependency amongst Dalit labourers in Tamil Nadu. In B. Harriss-White & J. Heyer (Eds.), A comparative political economy of development: Africa and South Asia. London: Routledge.
10. Harriss-White, B. (2005).Destitution and the poverty of its politics. WorldDevelopment, 33(6), 881-892.
11. Harriss-White, B. (June, 2017). Formality and informality in an Indian waste economy. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
12. Harriss-White, B., & Rodrigo, G. (2017). Discrimination in the waste economy: Narratives from the waste workers of a small town. Journal of Social Inclusion Studies.
13. Heyer, J. (2000). The changing position of agricultural labourers in villages in rural Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, between 1981/2 and 1996. (QEH Working Paper Series 57). Oxford: University of Oxford.
14. Hoornweg, D., Bhada-Tata, P., & Kennedy, C. (2013). Waste production must peak this century. Nature, 502, 615-617.
15. Human Rights Watch. (2014). Cleaning human waste: " Manual scavenging”, caste and discrimination in India. Retrieved from http://www.hrw.org.
16. IBRD. (2015). Health expenditure as a percentage of GDP. Retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS.
17. Jitendra, C. (2014). The new poverty line. Down to Earth. Retrieved from http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/new-poverty-line-rs-32-for-rural-india-rs-47-for-urban-india-45134.
18. Khan, M. (2001). Rents, efficiency and growth. In M. Khan & K. S. Jomo (Eds.), Rents, rent-seeking and economic development: Theory and evidence in Asia (pp. 21-66). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
19. Parker, L., & Blodgett, P. (2008). Greenhouse gas emissions: Perspectives on the top 20 emitters and developed versus developing nations. Congressional Research Services. Report for US Congress. Retrieved from http://americancorners.or.kr/articlealert/crs/en01f08.pdfs.
20. PTI. (2016, March 9). High death rate among scavengers while on duty: BJP MP. The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved from http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/high-death-rateamong- scavengers-while-on-duty-bjp-mp/article8331909.ece.
21. Rajan, R. (2015, February 20). Democracy, inclusion and prosperity. DD Kosambi Ideas Festival. Goa. Retrieved from https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/FS_Speeches.aspx?Id=941&fn=2754.
22. Sampath, G. (2016, February 20). Labour in the 21st century. The Hindu. Retrieved from http:// www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/labour-in-the-twentyfirst-century/article8258164.ece.
23. Singh, B. (2012). Unseen: The truth about India’s manual scavengers. New Delhi: Penguin.