Articles by Jan Breman

• Life and Death in Annawadi
  • Jan Breman

  in NLR 78, November-December 2012, pp. 152-169
  Subjects: World Economy and Globalization , India
  

  Jan Breman on Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Close-quarters chronicle of life in a Mumbai slum-settlement.

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• The Undercities of Karachi
  • Jan Breman

  in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 48-63
  Subjects: Pakistan , Cities
  

  Pakistan’s turbulent metropolis as battleground for gangsters and politicians, and the iniquitous rural order that propels impoverished haris to its slums.

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  Also available in Spanish
• Myth of the Global Safety Net
  • Jan Breman

  in NLR 59, September-October 2009, pp. 29-36
  Subjects: Work under Modern Capitalism
  

  Report from the lower depths of the global employment hierarchy, as the economic crisis multiplies the effects of informalization and agrarian decline on the billion-strong reserve army of labour.

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• Slumlands
  • Jan Breman

  in NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 141-148
  Subjects: Social Theory , Third World , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Jan Breman on Mike Davis, Planet of Slums. Panorama of the epochal shift to a majority urban world, with the vast mass of the destitute driven to subsistence tactics in their villas miseria.

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  Also available in Spanish and Italian