TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Kaveri
TI  - Of poverty and plastic: scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy 
SN  - 9780198060864
AV  - HD9661.A4-ZI.x3A-ZD (H20)+ 
U1  - 362.5 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Plastics industry and trade
KW  - India
KW  - Delhi
KW  - Ragpickers
KW  - Plastic scrap
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index; Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Photographs -- Map -- 1. Introduciton -- 2. The City of Delhi -- 3. Waste as Informal Sector Work: Measuring Income Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation -- 4. Interlinked Contracts and Social Power: Patronage and Exploitation in India's Waste Recovery Market -- 5. Exploitation or Entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the Economics of Survival in the Informal Market Economy -- 6. From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress: Recasting Low Caste Status in India's Expanding Informal Economy -- 7. 'Bourgeois Environmentalism', the State, the Judiciary and the Urban Poor: The Political Mobilization of a Scheduled Caste Market -- 8. Conclusion -- Methodological Note -- Plastics Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index; Also available online (Table of contents)
N2  - On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi
ER  -