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Writing labour : stone quarry workers in Delhi /

Drawing from the author's intensive fieldwork, this book examines stone-quarry workers on the expanding fringes of south Delhi and offers ways to enter and interpret their world. The study views them as active agents negotiating extreme poverty exploitation, and oppression.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Talib, Mohammad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Anthropology online
Subjects:
Quarries and quarrying > India > Delhi > Employees.
Working class > India > Delhi.
Carrières (Exploitations minières) > Inde > Delhi > Personnel.
Travailleurs > Inde > Delhi.
Quarries and quarrying > Employees
Working class
India > Delhi
Labor.
Reflection.
Reminiscences.
Fieldwork.
Dispute.
Ideology.
Profiling.
Struggle.
Protest.
Expression.
Images.
Workers.
Thinking.
Stones.
Living.
Electronic books.
Ethnography.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Drawing from the author's intensive fieldwork, this book examines stone-quarry workers on the expanding fringes of south Delhi and offers ways to enter and interpret their world. The study views them as active agents negotiating extreme poverty exploitation, and oppression.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and indexes.
ISBN:0199088241
9780199088249
9780199080083
0199080089