Formality and informality in e-waste economies: exploring caste-class in urban land and labor practices

Rathore, Gayatri Jai Singh

doi:10.1080/02723638.2020.1785745

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“…There, labour is rendered invisible and is taken for granted, even if its performance is that which enables these forms of digital mediation and production, and indeed other techniques, tools, and technologies of platform capitalism. Meanwhile, attention to infrastructural labour can advance understandings of the maintenance, repair, and disposability of digital urbanism’s infrastructures, ranging from e-waste to micro-mobility platform services (Corwin, 2019; Jai Singh Rathore, 2020; Pickren, 2014; Stehlin and Payne, 2022). Further attention to how digital labour is made infrastructural, and how these processes and practices compare with other experiences and forms of labour could signal relevant new avenues for research and action.…”

Section: Locating Infrastructural Labourmentioning

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Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Stokes

Coss‐Corzo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to social, political, economic, and ecological processes. We contribute to this discussion by highlighting the emergence of a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within infrastructural geographies – infrastructural labour. We identify key theoretical anchors that guide contemporary analyses of infrastructural labour, which we query by focusing on five key areas of scholarly discussion. Building on these, we offer a working definition of infrastructural labour to help guide further engagement and point to questions meriting additional investigation.

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Section: Locating Infrastructural Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Stokes

Coss‐Corzo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Therefore, scholars have taken to retaining local terms like clasificadores or catadores . In India, waste pickers predominantly belong to the lower caste and minority groups (Gill, 2006; Harriss‐White, 2020; Rathore, 2020). Scholars have called them entrepreneurs and environmental champions at the lowest level in the hierarchy of waste regimes who reincarnate garbage into a valuable economic resource (Gill, 2009; Firdaus and Ahmad, 2010).…”

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GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai

Sharma

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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A rich seam of waste scholarship already addresses the exclusion faced by informal waste workers as cities in the global South undergo spatial transformations to become ‘world class’. However, less attention has been paid to how state practices have reproduced inequalities within and across waste picker communities. Drawing upon eleven months of ethnographic research at Mumbai's Deonar dump site, this article maps the practices through which waste workers have responded to their exclusion following a massive fire in 2016. It demonstrates that social exclusion is experienced differently by different members of the community and calls for a greater focus on heterogeneity amongst waste workers. Multi‐dimensional vulnerabilities manifest through these workers’ deal‐making strategies, while simultaneously mirroring the conditions of marginality produced by the state. The article contributes to debates on marginality by employing the lens of erasure to show how exclusion relies on the optics of visibility and invisibility. By unpicking the hierarchical structure within one waste worker organization, the article argues that the state‐led mandate for garbage‐free cities in India disproportionately affects those located at the margins of marginalized groups.

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“…Falta de habilidades, educación y oportunidades de capacitación para los trabajadores. (Dávila, 2021;Jai-Singh-Rathore, 2020) Limitadas oportunidades de trabajo formal y baja productividad del trabajo informal. Políticas tributarias y regulatorias que desalienten el empleo formal y favorezcan el trabajo informal.…”

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Informalidad laboral: Un análisis integral de las causas y factores que perpetúan su existencia

Arredondo-Lezama,

Villar-Andia,

Tasayco-Peñaloza

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Koinonia

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La informalidad laboral se refiere a un fenómeno en el cual los trabajadores se encuentran empleados en actividades económicas que no están reguladas ni protegidas por las leyes laborales y las normativas vigentes, su incremento ha sido notorio desde la llegada de la pandemia, para conocer las causas y factores que lo perpetúan, se ha realizado una revisión sistemática analizando 37 artículos de investigación donde se muestra que una de las causas de la informalidad es el bajo nivel educativo y pocas habilidades. Este estudio sugiere la intervención del ente gubernamental para que incentive la formalización de los emprendimientos.

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Formality and informality in e-waste economies: exploring caste-class in urban land and labor practices

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai

Informalidad laboral: Un análisis integral de las causas y factores que perpetúan su existencia

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