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Contract Labour in Urban Constructions The Making of New Labour Regimes in India and China
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The authors analyzes the labour regime that has taken shape in the construction sector in post-reform India and China and argues that there is a striking parallel in both countries, both in the process involved in the formation of labour regimes as well as in the outcome it has produced for the workers.Abstract:
This article analyzes the labour regime that has taken shape in the construction sector in post-reform India and China. In both countries, expansion of the urban sector has entailed large-scale labour mobilization of wage workers from the lowest agrarian strata. Based on an examination of flexibilities in labour con-tracts, wage-related issues and the enclosures built into the worksites, it argues that there is a striking parallel in India and China, both in the process involved in the formation of labour regimes as well as in the outcome it has produced for the workers in the construction sector.read more
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Labour Regime Transformation in Myanmar: Constitutive Processes of Contestation
Dennis Arnold,Stephen Campbell +1 more
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The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the specifics of informalised labour relations as a prism through which to understand general aspects of labour relations in the South and use them to understand the commonalities in labour processes and labour conditions created by flexibilisation and informalisation.
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Brokering labour: The politics of markets in the Kathmandu construction industry:
TL;DR: In this article, the markets that connect prospective employees with places of work have been studied in a rich tradition for labour studies in anthropology, but little attention has so far been paid to the markets.
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Moral Economies of Remuneration: Wages, Piece-Rates, and Contracts on a Delhi Construction Site
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track the forms and practices of remuneration that structure production in the Indian construction industry and argue that these forms encode two quite different imaginations of work and the appropriate relations between employers and workers.
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Chinese Society : Change, Conflict and Resistance
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Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives
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China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy
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