This paper examines one aspect of noncapitalist production: that of raw materials from wastes in Bandung. Scavenging as an occupational group is defined and distinguished from other occupations involved with waste. The specification of Bandung scavengers as peasants has apparent implications for...

Introduction -- The workers -- The work -- The workplace -- Public-private partnerships -- Institutional boundaries, accountability, and the integral state -- The politics of free labor: visibility and invisibility -- Valuing maintenance, valuing workers