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Feeding the City : Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas

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Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray.

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: Open Book Publishers., 2013

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English

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9781909254022

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Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Taufik

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