Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near Mumbai's international airport. The Pulitzer prize winning writer, Katherine Boo, spent 4 years hearing the stories of the slum dwellers who stand little chance of joining the 'new' Indian middle class. She talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum". Also, the sociologist, Jeff Kidder, highlights new research which analyses why so many Americans are morally opposed to taxation. They're joined by British sociologist, Peter Taylor Gooby, who's researched British attitudes to tax. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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1:19.0	There was a basic wage and it could be supplemented by a bonus which is based upon the number of items that you successfully stacked away.
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