University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Open Access Dissertations 2-2012 Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India's Informal Economy Amit Basole University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations Part of the Economics Commons Recommended Citation Basole, Amit, "Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India's Informal Economy" (2012). Open Access Dissertations. 531. https://doi.org/10.7275/pzd2-e937 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/531 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, AND PRODUCTION RELATIONS IN INDIA'S INFORMAL ECONOMY A Dissertation Presented by AMIT BASOLE Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2012 Economics c Copyright by AMIT BASOLE 2012 All Rights Reserved KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, AND PRODUCTION RELATIONS IN INDIA'S INFORMAL ECONOMY A Dissertation Presented by AMIT BASOLE Approved as to style and content by: J. Mohan Rao, Co-chair James K. Boyce, Co-chair Mwangi wa Githinji, Member Ananya Vajpeyi, Member Michael Ash, Department Chair Economics To, Sunil and Chitra Sahasrabudhey, for inspiration and guidance. And Ehsan Ali Ansari, for leading the way. And for, Shilpi Suneja ACKNOWLEDGMENTS During the time that this work has come to fruition, I have been blessed with an extraordinary number of good friends, mentors, and colleagues.