Rethinking “surplus populations”: theory from the peripheries

• Main Authors: Cowan, Tom, Campbell, Stephen, Kalb, Don
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Capitalism; Informality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173971
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Critical scholarship on twenty-first century capitalist development has called attention to certain structural limits on employment growth. Large populations excluded from formal employment are seen to eke out a precarious subsistence in informal economies, seemingly “surplus” to the needs of capita...