Namita Vijay Dharia

The industrial ephemeral : labor and love in Indian architecture and construction/ Namita Vijay Dharia - University Of California Press, 2022. - 273 pages

The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The personal histories of those in India's large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological transformation of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development; Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-268) and index.

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Labor - Anthropological aspects - India - Delhi
Urbanization - Social aspects - India - Delhi - 21st century
Construction workers - India - Delhi
Architecture and anthropology - India - Delhi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

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