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Journal Articles
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...
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Research Reports
Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women
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Worker Story
Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India
A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...
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Research Reports
Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors
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Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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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...
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Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly
Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links...
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Research Reports
Invisible Workers, Visible Contribution. A Study of Home Based Workers in Five Sectors across South Asia
Background paper presented at Regional Policy Seminar on Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Policy...
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Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India
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Globalization and Securing Rights for Women Informal Workers in Asia
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