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Journal Articles
Employment Vulnerability in the Urban Labour Market in India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics
This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been...
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Journal Articles
Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers
The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector...
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers
Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...
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Research Reports
Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem
Esta publicação relata os resultados de uma pesquisa em cinco cidades, que examinava o acesso das trabalhadoras informais ao cuidado de crianças...
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Research Reports
Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions
This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...
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Policy Briefs
Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India
Increased urbanization in India has meant more poor people live in hazardous conditions, lacking access to even basic facilities and services....
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Research Reports
The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors
These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...
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Journal Articles
The Making of “World-Class” Delhi: Relations Between Street Hawkers and the New Middle Class.Antipode
Urban India is undergoing transformation as formal electoral politics increasingly favors the new middle class. Scholarship tends to compartmentalize...
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Statistical Briefs
Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: Statistics and Trends
This report presents statistics and trends on home-based workers in Pakistan, based on data from the Labour Force Survey for two points in...
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Research Reports
Organizing Informal Women Workers
Paper prepared for UNRISD Gender Policy Report.Abstract:
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