Precarity
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Reclaiming Wage-Work: Power, Subordination and Contestation among Africa’s Precarious Workers
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Thabang Sefalafala this article in South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of…
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Weaver to precarity capitalism: ethnographic understanding of contemporary Surat through the experiences of Odia labour migrants
Sandeepan Tripathy, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Contemporary South Asia. Abstract: Many economic and historical accounts mention the forms of capitalism in Surat. The paper argues that while capitalism has always been central to examining Surat, existing literature mainly focuses on the owners of capital and the relationships among them. The notions of…