ISBN : 9780199403899
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.
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