Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood: Issues and Challenges of Transformation

349 Pages·2017·3.736 MB·English

by  Virginius Xaxa, Debdulal Saha, Rajdeep Singha (eds.)

EDITED BY
Virginius Xaxa, Debdulal Saha and Rajdeep Singha
Work,
Institutions
and Sustainable
Livelihood
Issues and Challenges of Transformation
Work, Institutions and Sustainable Livelihood
(cid:129) (cid:129)
VirginiusXaxa DebdulalSaha RajdeepSingha
Editors
Work, Institutions
and Sustainable
Livelihood
Issues and Challenges
of Transformation
Editors
VirginiusXaxa DebdulalSaha
Sociology/SocialWork CentreforLabourStudies&
TezpurUniversity SocialProtection
Tezpur,Assam,India TataInstituteofSocialSciences
Guwahati,Assam,India
RajdeepSingha
CentreforLabourStudiesandSocialProtection
TataInstituteofSocialSciences
Guwahati,Assam,India
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Preface
This book evolved from the annual thematic conference of the Interna-
tionalCenterforDevelopmentandDecentWork(ICDD),Universityof
Kassel, Germany. The conference, organized by the Centre for Labour
StudiesandSocialProtection(CLSSP)ofTataInstituteofSocialSciences
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(TISS), Guwahati campus, was held on 19 20 February 2016. Decent
’
Work and Sustainable Development along Rural-Urban Gradients was
the theme of the conference. In all, 52 scholars from Europe, Latin
America, Africa and Asia attended the conference and deliberated upon
aspectsofworkandsustainabledevelopment.Theissuesthathademerged
‘ ’ ‘ ’
from the discussion were conditions of employment , future of work
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and questions of sustainability . We decided to focus on the institutions
within rural and urban economies which have important roles in
transforming work and livelihood and making it sustainable using pro-
fi
gressive instruments and innovations. Of all the papers, we identi ed
11whichraisedtheissuesandchallengesoftransformationinthecontext
ofAsiaand Africa.Thevolume is an outcome ofthat exercise. Contribu-
tions are based on both theoretical and empirical studies from these two
—
continents. The 11 chapters are presented across 3 sections rural econ-
omy and its transformation, urbanization and sustainable livelihood, and
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innovations and instruments in transformation. We will address these
theoretical discourse and empirical issues against the backdrop of current
development trajectories in the context of the Global South.
Without the support, encouragement and generosity of various indi-
vidualsandinstitutions,thisvolumewouldnothavebeencompleted.To
start with, we thank the faculty, staff and students of the TISS Guwahati
campus who made the conference possible. We express our sincere
gratitude to all the contributing authors of this book who had earlier
presented their papers in conference and later agreed to collaborate with
us. Without their support, we could not have brought this volume to
publicationwithinthestipulatedtime.WethankChristophScherrerand
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ChristianMollmannfromICDDforhelpinguswhileconceptualizingthe
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conference theme. We thank ICDD for its nancial support and in
particularBirgitFelmedenandAntjeBrachtfromKasselfortheiruntiring
support in guiding in the organization of the conference. Our special
thanks toMadhuparnaBanerjee whocopyeditedthisvolume.Wethank
theanonymousrefereesfortheirusefulinputsandsuggestions.Wewould
like to thank the Palgrave team, in particular Sagarika Ghosh (Executive
Editor), Nupoor Singh (Associate Editor) and Sandeep Kaur (Assistant
Editor),fortheirsupportandcooperationateverystagetoseetheproject
through to fruition.
Tezpur University Virginius Xaxa
Tezpur, Assam, India
Tata Institute of Social Sciences Debdulal Saha
Guwahati, Assam, India
Tata Institute of Social Sciences Rajdeep Singha
Guwahati, Assam, India
Contents
1 Introduction 1
Debdulal Saha, Rajdeep Singha, and Virginius Xaxa
Part I Rural Economy and Its Transformation 15
2 Rural Transformation and Indigenous Peoples in India 17
Virginius Xaxa
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3 Ghana s Gold Boom and Multinational Corporations:
Resource Nationalism or Countervailing Force? 35
Patrick K. Agbesinyale
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4 Augmenting Small Farmers Income Through Rural
Non-farm Sector in India: Role of Information
and Institutions 73
Meenakshi Rajeev and Manojit Bhattacharjee
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5 Social Welfare, Unemployment and Public Works
in Rural Southern Mozambique 101
Ruth Castel-Branco
6 Understanding Social Reality(ies) of Rural Livelihoods:
Insights from a Comprehensive Study in Two Villages
in Mozambique 125
Claudia Levy
Part II Urbanization and Sustainable Livelihood 151
7 A New Approach to Rural Labour Mobility in the Labour
Surplus Economy: A Tripartite Labour Supply Model 153
Cheng Li
8 Urbanization, Land Alienation and Proletarianization:
A Study of Rajbansis in North Bengal 193
Hemantika Basu
9 Street Food, Food Safety and Sustainability
in an Emerging Mega City: Insights from an Empirical
Study in Hyderabad, India 227
Christoph Dittrich
Part III Innovations and Instruments in Transformation 249
10 The Promises of New Instruments for the Promotion
of Decent Work 251
Christoph Scherrer and Stefan Beck
Contents ix
11 Microcredits, Returns and Gender: Of Reliable Poor
Women and Financial Inclusion in South Asia 275
Christa Wichterich
12 Organizing the Informal Economy in Senegal 303
Thomas Greven
Index 323
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
DebdulalSaha isAssistantProfessoratTataInstituteofSocialSciences(TISS),
Guwahati Campus, Assam, India. Prior to joining TISS, he was post-doctoral
fellow and guest lecturer at the International Center for Development and
Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany. He obtained MA in
EconomicsfromtheUniversityofNorthBengalandPhDfromTISSMumbai.
He is the author of Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street Vendors in
Urban India (2017), co-author of Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street
Vendors in the Urban Economy (2013) and co-editor of Food Crisis and Its
Implications for Labor (2013). He has been engaged in various research projects
onissuesrelatedtowork,employment,inequality,labourandpovertysupported
bytheUnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme(UNDP),InternationalCenter
forDevelopmentandDecentWork(ICDD),InternationalCentreforIntegrated
MountainDevelopment (ICIMOD),MinistryofHousingandPovertyAllevia-
tion (MoHUPA), National Alliance for Street Vendors in India (NASVI),
Municipal Corporation for Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Hans B€ockler
Foundation-GermanyandtheInternationalLabourOrganisation(ILO).
RajdeepSingha isAssistantProfessorandCentreChairpersonofLabourStud-
ies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus, Assam,
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