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028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754, Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 26-27/CRB/682 _d: 25/09/2026
082			_a322.209 NAI
100			_aNair, Manjusha.
245			_aUndervalued Dissent _b: Informal Worker's Politics in India. _c/ Manjusha Nair.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Meena Book Publications _c, 2018.
300			_axv, 231p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b906
520			_a 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.”
650			_aIndustrial relations
650			_aPolitical aspects
650			_aLabor policy
700			_aManjusha Nair.
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