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Workers and margins : grasping erasures and opportunities / edited by Nimruji Jammulamadaka.

9789811378768 (electronic book)
9811378762 (electronic book)
9811378754
9789811378751

Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2019 : Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.

English

1 online resource (xxi, 308 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-981-13-7

HD28-70

338.6

This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of 'work, 'workers and 'margins. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker visible, it seeks to go beyond economistic and psychological approaches to work(ing) to understand the worker as a human being, with all the complexity, vulnerability and agency that status implies. Further, it seeks to go beyond worker victimhood to gather narratives of workers worlds and the possibility of alternate worlds. The contributing authors bring together diverse perspectives from fields including industrial relations, environment, displacement, collective action, livelihoods, rural development, MSMEs, organisational behaviour and entrepreneurship to present a textured and multidimensional view of workers and their worlds.

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