City of Shadows - Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore

Inner city slums, migrant settlements, construction workers, highlight informal work as underpinning urban poverty and marginalization.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Welfare and work: State autonomy revisited; 3. Urban poverty and informal work; 4. A political economy overview: Karnataka and Bangalore; 5. New slums: Migration, livelihoods and living; 6. Old slums; 7. Impact of slum housing policies: Bangalore's new ghettoes; 8. Women workers in Bangalore's garment export companies; 9. Conclusion.

Summary

Urban researchers and development practitioners, would benefit from the book's narratives of the old poor in inner city slums, new poor in peripheral migrant settlements, export and construction workers. Traditional unskilled occupations and low-end services highlight that the poor's vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality.

Product details

• Authors: SUPRIY ROYCHOWDHURY, Supriya RoyChowdhury
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108839365
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83936-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, India, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Sociology: work & labour, urban economics, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Sociology: work and labour, Regional / urban economics