Region: Asia & the Pacific

Promoting Occupational Safety and Health for Cambodian Entertainment Sector Workers

Abstract: Cambodia has developed booming textile, garment, tourism, and entertainment service industries since the mid-1990s. The 2007 global...

Drivers of urban sprawl in urbanizing China – a political ecology analysisEnvironment and Urbanization

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. 

Resistance and Compliance in the Age of Globalization: Indian Women and Labor Organizations

Abstract: This article summarizes findings obtained through ethnographic research conducted in three states in India between 2002 and 2004....

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology

In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...

The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses: A Case Study from Urban and Rural India

Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India

Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Earning their keep and keeping what they earn: A critique of organizing strategies for South Asian women in the informal sector

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Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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