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Flexibility and informalisation of labour: intangible assets, family and the informal economy in India
In this article, I demonstrate, through the use of the life course perspective, how informal work in the form of verbal wage contracts might lead to dignity and autonomy amongst the rural poor. The article draws attention to a broader comparative context of how indigenous autonomies are produced. In that they have the relative freedom to engage in a range of informal work as discussed, the Gonds’ autonomy in a neoliberal sense consists of self-governance, which draws attention to the indigenous community’s conception of the self as an economic and autonomous entity that is sustained by a range of social networks.
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Journal of Asian and African StudiesISSN
0021-9096Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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8Volume
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1953-1966Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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