Wage Hunters and Gatherers: Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of So

The informal sector concerns the large segment of the unskilled labour that has failed to manage regular and protected employment in the rapidly expanding towns and cities of the Third World countries. Based on empirical research over two decades in a small town of south Gujarat, this book discusses and then rejects some of the standard notions regarding the origin, size, shape and growth of this "sector".