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    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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  • Journal Articles

    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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  • Journal Articles

    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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  • Journal Articles

    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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  • Research Reports

    Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

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  • Journal Articles

    Globalization and Securing Rights for Women Informal Workers in Asia

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