Asia & the Pacific

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...

Health Financing and Delivery in India: An Overview of Selected Schemes

This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific...

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha’s experiences in central India

Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative...

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: ‘Citizens’ versus the Urban Poor

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Urban India 2011: Evidence

New Governance and the Role of Public and Private Monitoring of Labor Conditions: Sweatshops and China Social Compliance for Textile and Apparel Industry/CSC9000T

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Street Vendor Livelihoods and Everyday Politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: The Seeds of a Diverse Economy?