Bonded Labour in Pakistan

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-940389-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Part of the Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series Bonded labour in Pakistan brings together, for the first time, a collection of essays addressing bonded labour across different agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan. With contributions from prominent experts on labour issues and human rights activism, field researchers and ethnographers, and a leading legal scholar, the collection is a multi-disciplinary engagement with bonded labour in Pakistan as it has evolved over the last two decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Ali

Ahmed Qureshi, Ayaz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Chapter 1 Beyond setting at liberty: A legal study of the status of bonded labour in Pakistan Ali Qazilbash

- Chapter 2 Debt bondage in the brick kilns of Pakistan Ercelawn and Nauman

- Chapter 3 Debt bondage in the mining sector Ahmad Salim

- Chapter 4 Recruitment and wage systems in selected sectors Ali Khan

- Chapter 5 Class formation and the political economy of bonded labour in Punjab Nicholas Martin

- Chapter 6 Bonded labour among fishermen of the Indus River Ayaz Qureshi

- Chapter 7 Bonded labour in domestic work and begging Haris Gazdar

- Chapter 8 Women bonded labourers in Pakistan Sadaf Ahmed

- Chapter 9 Reconsidering links between debt and peshgi Ali Khan

- Chapter 10 Brick Kilns revisited Ali Khan, Laila Bushra, and Hamid Sultan

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Ali Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research interests vary from labour issues, particularly child and bonded labour to popular culture in Pakistan focusing particularly on cinema and sports. He is also the Series Editor for Oxford University Press Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series. He has a MPhil and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England.

Dr Ayaz Ahmed Qureshi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He received his PhD in Anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom in 2013. Prior to joining LUMS, he taught anthropology at SOAS, University of Sussex, and University of Oxford. His research interests include sexual and reproductive health, NGOs, bureaucracy, neo-liberalization, and Pakistani labour migration to the Persian Gulf. He has recently published articles in Journal of Royal Anthropological Society, Development and Change, Anthropology and Medicine, and Global Public Health.