Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India’s Urban Informal Economy
by
Kaveri Gill
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste...