Informal workers and organized action : narratives from the global south / Neetu Choudhary.
2022
HD6940.7 .C56 2022
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Title
Informal workers and organized action : narratives from the global south / Neetu Choudhary.
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ISBN
9789811642814 (electronic bk.)
9811642818 (electronic bk.)
9811642818 (electronic bk.)
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
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English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-4281-4 doi
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HD6940.7 .C56 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88091724
Summary
This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual workers decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that. There remains a disconnect as far as our understanding of the relationship between the labours choice to unionize as individual actor and the broader socioeconomic, political and cultural context of that choice, is concerned. Using the SWTS data, the book focuses on the identification of the correlates of workers propensity to unionize, the outcomes of unionizing and their synthesis with the wider political economy context to arrive at stylized patterns in the way informal workers exercise their agency. The book also reflects upon field data on organizing challenges of migrant workers in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The book does not claim to establish any causality but is interested in bringing out broad patterns that define informal workers organizing in a particular context. In the process, the book ends up with the preposition that despite all the heterogeneities across regions, informal workers organizing today can be understood through the lens of pragmatism. Neetu Choudhary is Associate Professor of Economics with the Amity University Patna, India and Adjunct Faculty with the Arizona State University, USA. She has been a Fulbright Fellow with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU. Dr Choudhary is a doctorate in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She has published considerably in the area of nutrition and water insecurity, gender, and informal workers organizing. Dr Choudhary was also awarded the Global Development Network Award for best research on development in 2014. Among her non-academic assignments, she has been engaged with several UN organizations.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal
Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh
Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda
Chapter 6. Organizing lessons from Tanzania
Chapter 7. Social solidarity perspectives from Brazil
Chapter 8. Solidarity and cooperation in Peru
Chapter 9. Construction workers and street vendors organizing: Ground view from India
Chapter 10. Towards a new framework for organizing: Does pragmatism explain it all?
Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal
Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh
Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda
Chapter 6. Organizing lessons from Tanzania
Chapter 7. Social solidarity perspectives from Brazil
Chapter 8. Solidarity and cooperation in Peru
Chapter 9. Construction workers and street vendors organizing: Ground view from India
Chapter 10. Towards a new framework for organizing: Does pragmatism explain it all?