City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore

Supriya RoyChowdhury

doi:10.1017/9781108989930

Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore's evolution into India's silicon valley, the book presents research spanning old, inner city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers, highlighting that intergenerationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional low paying occupations, or, get incorporated into new urban growth channels (export industries, low end services) under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Using the concepts of the old and the new poor, to explore channels of inclusion and exclusion, the book underscores that the poor's vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. Debates on the urban poor's political agency are used to problematize informality's complex relationship to contemporary theories of class.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Tables
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

1 - Introduction
pp 1-21

2 - Welfare and Work: State Autonomy Revisited
pp 22-41

3 - Urban Poverty and Informal Work
pp 42-65

4 - A Political Economy Overview: Karnataka and Bangalore
pp 66-95

5 - New Slums: Migration, Livelihoods and Living
pp 96-121

6 - Old Slums
pp 122-148

7 - Impact of Slum Housing Policies: Bangalore’s New Ghettoes
pp 149-175

8 - Women Workers in Bangalore’s Garment Export Companies
pp 176-200

9 - Conclusion
pp 201-219

Index
pp 220-231

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