“Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities

Title: “Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities
Description: This thesis investigates how the architecture of regulation addressing street vendors’ livelihood protection in India relies on either enforcing mobility or suspending it. It proposes that narratives of spatiality must accompany the contestations around the regularization of informal work. Using the city of Chandigarh as an empirical case, the thesis poses a set of policy considerations that link workers’ conditions of spatial, social, and economic informality, through a framework of ‘dignified work’. In doing so, it addresses the limited scholarly accounts on the dimensions of informal street work in India and aims to move the discussion around formalization beyond the economic rhetoric of public policy.
Creator: Nagpal, Gauri
Subject: Informality; Labour; Livelihood Protection; Street Trade; Transport; Urban; Urban planning; Labor relations; Land use planning
Contributor: Mehrotra, Rahul
Date: 2023-05-18T04:09:03Z; 2023; 2023-05-17; 2023-05; 2023-05-18T04:09:03Z
Type: Thesis or Dissertation; text
Format: application/pdf; application/pdf
Identifier: Nagpal, Gauri. 2023. “Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.; 30521583; https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375215
Language: en