What is it about?
Little is known about the histories of unionization in the so called informal sector. This paper attempts to address this research-gap by describing how the street vendors in Calcutta have formed associations/unions to operate in the governmental and market spaces.
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Why is it important?
This work looks at the de-informalization of the hawkers' question in India and historicizes the politics of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.
Perspectives
Scholars have rarely addressed informality using a historian's method of archival research. This is a work of historical-anthropology that unravels some of the mysteries of Indian democracy going beyond the optic of 'vote-bank' politics.
Professor Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,Calcutta
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This page is a summary of: Institutionalizing Informality: The hawkers’ question in post-colonial Calcutta, Modern Asian Studies, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x1400064x.
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