This collection of essays focuses on a large segment of unskilled labourers in Indian society who have failed to manage regular and protected employment in the rapidly expanding towns and cities of Third World countries. Based on empirical research over two decades in a small town of south Gujarat, the author discusses and then rejects some of the standard notions regarding the origin, size, shape and growth of this sector of the Indian population.
- ISBN10 0195635566
- ISBN13 9780195635560
- Publish Date 1 July 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 February 2002
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 433
- Language English