Description
| Product ID: | 9781108839365 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | City of Shadows |
| Subtitle: | Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore |
| Authors: | Author: Supriya RoyChowdhury |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Sociology: work and labour, Labour / income economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Political economy, Regional / urban economics, Sociology: work & labour, Labour economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Political economy, Urban economics, India |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore''s evolution into India''s silicon valley, the book presents research spanning old, inner city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers, highlighting that intergenerationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional low paying occupations, or, get incorporated into new urban growth channels (export industries, low end services) under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Using the concepts of the old and the new poor, to explore channels of inclusion and exclusion, the book underscores that the poor''s vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. Debates on the urban poor''s political agency are used to problematize informality''s complex relationship to contemporary theories of class. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-07 |
