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Informal Workers and Organized Action

Narratives From the Global South

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Authors:
  1. Neetu Choudhary

    1. Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

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  • Identifies and offers insight into determinants of informal workers from a cross-country perspective

  • Checks state’s pro-capitalist agenda and ways to encourage workers to engage in solidarity welfare initiatives

  • Develops a theoretical framework on organizing of informal workers

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 1-17

  3. Informal Workers and Organized Agency: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 19-33

  4. Organizing Amidst Informality in Nepal: Between Confrontation and Cooperation

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 35-47

  5. Informal Workers and Organized Agency in Bangladesh: The Defining Role of RMG Sector

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 49-62

  6. Informality and Organizing in Uganda: A Case for Cooperatives and Trade Union Partnership

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 63-77

  7. Organizing Lessons from Tanzania: The Formal-Informal Rift

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 79-92

  8. Informal Workers’ Organizing in Brazil: A Basis for Social and Solidarity Economy

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 93-106

  9. Informal Workers’ Organizing in Peru: Potential Role for Indigenous Movements

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 107-119

  10. Informality, Migrants and the Rarity of Organizing: Insights from India During COVID-19

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 121-142

  11. Pragmatism as the Theory of Informal Workers’ Organizing? A Concluding Note

    • Neetu Choudhary
    Pages 143-153

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-190
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About this book

This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual worker’s decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that.. There remains a disconnect as far as our understanding of the relationship between the labour’s choice to unionize as individual actor and the broader socioeconomic, political and cultural context of that choice, is concerned.Using the SWTS data, the book focuses on the identification of the correlates of workers’ propensity to unionize, the outcomes of unionizing and their synthesis with the wider political economy context to arrive at stylized patterns in the way informal workers exercise their agency.
The book also reflects upon field data on organizing challenges of migrant workers in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The book does not claim to establish any causality but is interested in bringing out broad patterns that define informal workers’ organizing in a particular context. In the process, the book ends up with the preposition that despite all the heterogeneities across regions, informal workers’ organizing today can be understood through the lens of pragmatism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

    Neetu Choudhary

About the author

Neetu Choudhary is Associate Professor of Economics with the Amity University Patna, India and Adjunct Faculty with the Arizona State University, USA. She has been a Fulbright Fellow with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU. Dr Choudhary is a doctorate in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She has published considerably in the area of nutrition and water insecurity, gender, and informal workers’ organizing. Dr Choudhary was also awarded the Global Development Network Award for best research on development in 2014. Among her non-academic assignments, she has been engaged with several UN organizations

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Informal Workers and Organized Action

  • Book Subtitle: Narratives From the Global South

  • Authors: Neetu Choudhary

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4281-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4280-7Published: 14 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4281-4Published: 13 December 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Asian Economics

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