PrefacePublisher's AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Great Transformation in the Setting of AsiaI. The Agrarian Background:1. Labour and Landlessness in South and Southeast Asia2. The Political Economy of Agrarian ChangeII. Peasants on the Move:3. Coming to Kolkata: Pathways to a Better Life or Lost in Dead-end Alleys?4. How to Find Space, Shop Around, and Move Up in the Informal Sector5. SlumlandsIII.

The Urban Economy and its Workforce:6. The Study of Industrial Labour in Post-colonial India: The Formal Sector7. The Study of Industrial Labour in Post-colonial India: The Informal Sector, a Concluding ReviewIV. The Exodus of Rural Labour: 8. The Informal Sector of India's Economy;9. Labour Migration from Rural to Urban ChinaV. The Dynamics of Exclusion:10. Social Exclusion in the Context of Globalization11.

Myths of the Global Safety Net12. The Eventual Return of Social DarwinismIndex.