Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

By Rina Agarwala on April 01, 2013

"This is a beautifully crafted, path-breaking study that upends conventional wisdom about the relentless demise of labor movements. Agarwala's lucid analysis of the ways in which precariously employed informal workers in India have organized to improve their status bristles with insights on every page. This superb book is a must-read not only for specialists in South Asia but for anyone interested in the future of the labor movement, in the global North as much as in the South."

– Ruth Milkman, City University of New York

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