The Garbage Economy: Casteing Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi

Author/Contributor(s):	Kornberg, Dana
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	10/20/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Garbage Economy reveals how the labor of informal garbage collectors persists amid privatization schemes, violent evictions, and pervasive casteist and Islamophobic discrimination. Kornberg takes readers inside Delhi's waste economy, from morning collection rounds to scrap markets and state offices.