Drawing from the author's intensive fieldwork, this book examines stone-quarry workers on the expanding fringes of south Delhi and offers ways to enter andinterpret their world. The study views them as active agents negotiating extreme poverty, exploitation, and oppression and offers a fresh perspective on what it means to be a worker at the lowest rung of the current globalized society. INDICE: Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Tables; ; Introduction to Writing Labour;; 1.: Living Off the Stones: Conditions of Life;; 2.: Thinking through the Stones: Workers' Images and Expressions;; 3.: Stirrings from the Stones: Collective Protests and Struggles;; 4.: Dots on the Stones: Personal Profiles;; 5.: Sites of World-Making: Ideology and Contestations;; 6.: Being with the Stone Quarry Workers: Field Reminiscences and Reflections; Conclusions andImplications ; Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806771-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés