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In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World - Softcover

Seabrook, Jeremy

 
9781859840818: In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1859840817 ISBN 13: 9781859840818
Verlag: Verso Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This is an account of life in the vast and ever-expanding cities of South Asia. From Bangkok, Bombay, Dhaka, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur, Jeremy Seabrook brings stories of survival and uncelebrated heroism, stories with uncanny echoes of life in Britain in the early-industrial era. At the same time, he provides an analysis of the restructuring of urban life in South Asia, as the world moves towards a “single integrated economy.” The book evokes daily life, with descriptions of collective resistance, together with the extraordinary individual tales of some of the thousands of migrants who arrive daily in these megacities of the South. Jeremy Seabrook pays special attention to the position of labour, both organized and unorganized in these cities, to the unrecorded struggles of industrial workers in the suburbs in Jakarta, or garment-workers in Bangkok. In doing so, he highlights the convergences between North and South, which are likely to become sharper as workers in Britain and other Western countries are forced into even fiercer competition with those of South Asia.

Jeremy Seabrook is the author of The Unprivileged, Mother and Son, The Idea of Neighbourhood, Landscapes of Poverty, Myth of the Market, A World Still to Win, The Revolt Against Change and Victims of Development.

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Jeremy Seabrook has published more than twenty books, including The Unprivileged, Mother and Son, Landscapes of Poverty and Victims of Development. He currently writes for New Statesman and Society, The Pioneer in Delhi and Third World Resurgence in Penang.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859840817
ISBN 13 
9781859840818
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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