Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction

   • Debdulal Saha, Rajdeep Singha, Virginius Xaxa

   Pages 1-14

3. Rural Economy and Its Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Rural Transformation and Indigenous Peoples in India

      • Virginius Xaxa

      Pages 17-34

   3. Ghana’s Gold Boom and Multinational Corporations: Resource Nationalism or Countervailing Force?

      • Patrick K. Agbesinyale

      Pages 35-72

   4. Augmenting Small Farmers’ Income Through Rural Non-farm Sector in India: Role of Information and Institutions

      • Meenakshi Rajeev, Manojit Bhattacharjee

      Pages 73-99

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

      • Ruth Castel-Branco

      Pages 101-123

   6. Understanding Social Reality(ies) of Rural Livelihoods: Insights from a Comprehensive Study in Two Villages in Mozambique

      • Claudia Levy

      Pages 125-150

4. Urbanization and Sustainable Livelihood

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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

      • Cheng Li

      Pages 153-192

   3. Urbanization, Land Alienation and Proletarianization: A Study of Rajbansis in North Bengal

      • Hemantika Basu

      Pages 193-225

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

      • Christoph Dittrich

      Pages 227-248

5. Innovations and Instruments in Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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

      • Christoph Scherrer, Stefan Beck

      Pages 251-274

   3. Microcredits, Returns and Gender: Of Reliable Poor Women and Financial Inclusion in South Asia

      • Christa Wichterich

      Pages 275-301

   4. Organizing the Informal Economy in Senegal

      • Thomas Greven

      Pages 303-322

6. Back Matter

   Pages 323-333

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The book explores the debates surrounding sustainable livelihood in the neoliberal era effected through transformation of the nature of work and the role of institutions, particularly in the Global South. By creating gainful work and employment opportunities through formal and informal institutions using progressive instruments and innovations within rural and urban economies, livelihood becomes ‘sustainable’, thereby reducing inequality and increasing resilience among households.

Based on both theoretical and empirical studies from Asia and Africa, the book establishes the relationship between three broad concepts – work, institutions and sustainable development. The content has been divided into three broad sections: Rural Economy and Its Transformations; Urbanisation and Sustainable Livelihood; and Innovations and Instruments of Transformation. This book is a valuable resource for scholars of development studies, rural and urban studies, labour studies besides economics, sociology, political science and policymaking.

• Work and Employment
• Livelihood, Sustainable Development
• Labour Market Institutions
• Rural-Urban Transformation
• sustainable development

“Xaxa, Saha and Singha tackle some of the most urgent questions that face the lower income half of the world.  This collection is a necessary contribution to a momentous global dialogue.” (Chris Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, USA)

“The challenge in the developing world is to enable institutions that trigger sustainable work and development. This insightful book critically discusses various attempts towards that objective in different economic sectors and regions of the world. It is an important contribution to our understanding of livelihoods and the socio-economic and political forces that influence them.” (Errol D’Souza, Professor of Economics and Dean (Faculty), IIM Ahmedabad, India)

“The volume carries insightful contributions on critical issues of rural and urban transformation in Asian and African countries focusing on marginalized sections. It will be of value to scholars and policy-makers who are engaged in understanding the dynamics of the process of securing sustainable livelihood in contemporary times.” (Manoranjan Mohanty, Former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, and Editor, Social Change)

• Sociology/Social Work, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

  Virginius Xaxa

• Centre for Labour Studies & Social Protection, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India

  Debdulal Saha

• Centre for Labour Studies and Social Protection, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India

  Rajdeep Singha

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.

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