Undervalued Dissent (Record no. 70856)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789385957314
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Savera Book Distributors
Distributor address : 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 26-27/CRB/682
Bill Date : 25/09/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 322.209 NAI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nair, Manjusha.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Undervalued Dissent
Remainder of title : Informal Worker's Politics in India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Manjusha Nair.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Meena Book Publications
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2018.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 231p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 906
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Historically, the Indian state has not offered welfare and social rights to all of its citizens, yet a remarkable characteristic of its polity has been the ability of citizens to dissent in a democratic way. In Undervalued Dissent, Manjusha Nair argues that this democratic space has been vanishing slowly. Based on extensive fieldwork in Chhattisgarh, a regional state in central India, this book examines two different informal workers’ movements. Informal workers are not part of organized labor unions and make up eighty-five percent of the Indian workforce. The first movement started in 1977 and was a success, while the other movement began in 1989 and still continues today, without success. The workers in both movements had similar backgrounds, skills, demands and strategies. Nair maintains that the first movement succeeded because the workers contended within a labor regime that allowed space for democratic dissent, and the second movement failed because they contested within a widely altered labor regime following neoliberal reforms, where these spaces of democratic dissent were preempted. The key difference between the two regimes, Nair suggests, is not in the withdrawal of a pro-labor state from its protective and regulatory role, as has been argued by many, but rather in the rise of a new kind of state that became functionally decentralized, economically predatory and politically communalized. These changes, Nair concludes, successfully de-democratized labor politics in India. “This book is a significant contribution to a growing understanding of the precarious nature of work, be it in formal or informal sectors.”
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Industrial relations
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political aspects
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Labor policy
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Manjusha Nair.
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