Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies

1: Introduction: Work, Livelihoods and Insecurity in the 21st Century: A Conceptual Introduction, Edward Webster & Sharit Bhowmik PART I Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies 2. Introduction: Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies, Mouleshri Vyas 3. Precarious Workers, Different Voices: Johannesburg's Inner City Workers, Katherine Joynt & Edward Webster 4. Labour and Migration Patterns: The Clothing Industry and Bolivian Migrants, Cibele Rizek, Isabel Georges & Carlos Freire da Silva 5. Public Space and Livelihood Security in the Urban Economy: The Case of Street Vendors in Mumbai, Debdulal Saha 6. Charcoal for Food: Livelihood Diversification in Two Peasant Communities in Mozambique, Claudia Levy & Brigitte Kaufmann 7. Conservancy work in Mumbai and Johannesburg: Retention at the Periphery, Mouleshri Vyas 8. Organising the Unorganised: Mumbai's Home Workers Lead the Way, Indira Gartenberg & Sharit Bhowmik PART 2: State Responses to Insecurity 9. Introduction: State Responses to Insecurity, Ellen Ehmke 10. Strategies for Social Protection Provision: A Comparison of Brazil, India and South Africa, Ellen Ehmke 11. State Responses to Insecurity: Social Assistance and Care in South Africa, Khayaat Fakier 12. Practice and Priorities of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: An Activist's Perspective, KS Gopal 13. Brazil's Strategy against Poverty: The Bolsa Familia and Brasil SEM Miseria, Amilton Moretto PART 3 Alternative Development Paths 14. Introduction: Alternative Development Paths, Jacklyn Cock 15. The Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa: Theory and Practice, Andrew Bennie 16. The Buen Vivir (good life) in Latin America: An Alternative Developmental Concept Challenging Extractivism in Ecuador, Mona Aranea Guillen 17. The Lula Moment: Constraints in the Current Peripheral Development Model, Ruy Braga 18. The 'Green Economy': A 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' or an Alternative Development Path for South Africa?, Jacklyn Cock 19. Envisioning Environmental Futures: Conversations around Socio-ecological Struggles and Industrialisation in Mundra, India, Kanchi Kohli 20. Conclusions: Building New Spaces: Responses to Insecurity in the Global South, Khayaat Fakier and Ellen Ehmke