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From the beginning of his academic career the Dutch sociologist Jan Breman has pursued a consistent but wide range of thematic and geographical research interests. This is reflected in his many publications. Most of them deal with labour relations in India and in Indonesia, both historical and contemporary, urban and rural, and with issues related to development cooperation. Breman’s writings play an important role in the national and international debates on ...
As the tides of globalisation and privatisation sweep across the world, it sometimes appears as if the labourer has been obliterated from public discourse. Thus, while retrenchment, contractualisation and casualisation push workers out from the so-called formal sector to the largely non-unionised informal sector, millions languish in squalor, poverty and misery. Not only does this situation prevail in the developing world, it has also manifested itself in the ...
