Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

About EditorsList of Contributors



Preface

Introduction

Virginius Xaxa, Debdulal Saha and Rajdeep Singha

Part I Rural Economy and its Transformation



1. Rural Transformation and Indigenous Peoples in India



Virginius Xaxa
2. Ghana's Gold Boom and Multinational Corporations: Resource Nationalism or Countervailing Force?





Patrick Kwamla Agbesinyale



3. Augmenting Small Farmers' Income through Rural Non-farm Sector in India: Role of Information and Institutions

Meenakshi Rajeev and Manojit Bhattacharjee



4. Social Welfare, Unemployment and Public Works in Rural Southern Mozambique

Ruth Castel-Branco



5. Understanding social reality(ies) of rural livelihoods: Insights from a comprehensive study in two villages in Mozambique

Claudia Levy

Part II Urbanization and Sustainable Livelihood





6. A New Approach to Rural Labour Mobility in the Labour Surplus Economy: A Tripartite Labour Supply Model

Cheng Li



7. Urbanization, Land Alienation and Proletarianization: a Study of Rajbansis in North Bengal

Hemantika Basu



8. Street Food, Food Safety and Sustainability in Emerging Mega City: Insights from an Empirical Study in Hyderabad, India

Christoph Dittrich



Part III Innovations and Instruments in Transformation

9. The Promises of New Instruments for the Promotion of Decent Work



Christoph Scherrer and Stefan Beck



10. Microcredits, Returns and Gender: of Reliable Poor Women and Financial Inclusion in South AsiaChrista Wichterich





11. Organizing the Informal Economy in Senegal

Thomas Greven



Index

Virginius Xaxa is Professor of Eminence at Tezpur University and former Deputy Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. He is the author of Economic Dualism and Structure of Class (1997) and State, Society and Tribes (2008), co-author of Plantation Labour in India (1996) and co-editor of Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Adivasis in India (2012).



Debdulal Saha is an assistant professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. He is the author of Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street Vendors in Urban India (2017), co-author of Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised (2013) and co-editor of Food Crisis and its Implication on Labour (2013).



Rajdeep Singha is an assistant professor and chairperson of the Centre for Labour Studies and Social Protection at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. Prior to joining TISS, he taught at the Department of Economics at St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, and was a research associate at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.