City of shadows : slums and informal work in Bangalore / Supriya RoyChowdhury.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021Description: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781108839365
- 362.509173/2095487 23
- HV4140.B36 R69 2021
- POL023000 | POL023000
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Centre de Science Humaines | 911.5 ROY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 15824 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Welfare and Work: State Autonomy Revisited -- Urban Poverty and Informal Work -- A Political Economy Overview: Karnataka and Bangalore -- New Slums: Migration, Livelihoods and Living -- Old Slums -- Impact of Slum Housing Policies: Bangalore's New Ghettoes -- Women Workers in Bangalore's Garment Export Companies -- Conclusion.
"As India's Silicon Valley, at the core of Bangalore's core economic dynamism is the export of Information Technology and related industries, surrounded by multinational banking, finance, venture capital, start-ups, real estate, and the concomitant appearance of luxury concepts in services. A new, tech savvy, cosmopolitan and ultra-consumerist middle class has gained from, as well as contributed to, these channels of economic dynamism. Spill-over effects have resulted in expansion of opportunities of employment and earnings, particularly in the lower rungs of services for hitherto disadvantaged groups but there is also a growing presence of an urban underclass, excluded from the city's growth channels. This book looks at such channels of both exclusion and inclusion. The informal structure of work and earnings - stemming from the character of the city's political economy - hold the key to understanding the issue of urban vulnerabilities. This work raises questions, grounded in field-based findings, about the currently pursued model of industrial development and mainstream understanding of urban poverty"-- Provided by publisher.
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