TY - BOOK AU - Jenkins,Rob AU - Manor,James TI - Politics and the right to work: India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act SN - 9780190686505 (ebook) : AV - HD5710.85 U1 - 331.120420954 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - India KW - Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 KW - Manpower policy, Rural N1 - Previously issued in print: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), passed in 2005, has been among the developing world's most ambitious anti-poverty initiatives. By 'guaranteeing' 100 days of work annually to every rural household, NREGA sought to advance the Indian constitution's commitment to securing citizens' 'right to work'. This volume is not a technical evaluation of program performance. It offers instead a detailed analysis of the politics surrounding NREGA UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608309.001.0001 ER -