Mapping India's World of Unorganized Labour

By B. Harriss‐White, N. Gooptu. 2001

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A Value Theory of Inclusion: Informal Labour, the Homeworker, and the Social Reproduction of Value (2020, background): “Across large swathes of the world, the wageless, marginal, informal worker – often a woman or member of a subaltern group – is still fighting a struggle over class (Harriss-White and Gooptu, 2001); namely, a struggle over recognition in their lived experience of exploitation.”
Market and society : the great Transformation today (2009, background): “4 Fewer than half of them are unionized (Harriss-White and Gooptu 2000); more than half are employed in state enterprises (Saini 1999).”
Neoliberalism as unexceptional: Economic zones and the everyday precariousness of working life in South India (2010, background): “Informality here is not a marginal, ‘residual’ or ‘transitional’ phenomenon but a ‘fundamental political-economic processes’ (Portes et al., 1989: 13) that has been and continues to be integral to India’s capitalist development (Harriss-White and Gooptu, 2001).”
Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy: comparative perspectives on Brazil and India (2013, background): “In India, it was estimated in the early 2000s that the unorganized (informal) sector accounted for over 60 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and fully 93 per cent of the workforce (see Breman, 2010; Harriss-White & Gooptu, 2001; Lerche, 2007).”