is the title of the new book by IISH’s honorary fellow Jan Breman. In this book Breman argues that the poor in India are getting more separated from the non-poor. The non-labouring poor are unable to take care of themselves and are driven away back and forth from their villages to the city in the struggle to find employment. Breman compares the conditions of the poor in present India to the poor during the Victorian period in England.
A large interview with Jan Breman on his book was published on 21 February in The Hindu.
Breman’s book fits very well in the IISH’ Global Labour History programme. Jan Breman works closely together with Marcel van der Linden in a project “Precarianization”
The book is published with Oxford University Press India
ISBN: 9780199464814