TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yadav,Smita
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Precarious Labour and Informal Economy: Work, Anarchy, and Society in an Indian Village 
SN  - 9783319779713
AV  - GN301-674 
U1  - 305.8 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Social inequality
KW  - Area studies
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Social Structure, Social Inequality
KW  - Area Studies
KW  - Social Anthropology
KW  - Labor Economics
N2  - An empirical account of one of India's largest indigenous populations, this book tells the story of the Gonds-who currently face displacement and governmental control of the region's forests, which has crippled their economy. Rather than protesting and calling for state intervention, the Gonds have turned toward an informal economy: they not only engage with flexible forms of work, but also bargain for higher wages and experience agency and autonomy. Smita Yadav conceives of this withdrawal from the state in favour of precarious forms of work as an expression of anarchy by this marginalized population. Even as she provides rich detail of the Gonds' unusual working lives, which integrate work, labour, and debt practices with ideologies of family and society, Yadav illustrates the strength required to maintain dignity when a welfare state has failed
UR  - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1007/978-3-319-77971-3
ER  -