Asia & the Pacific

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

A new generation of Bangkok Street vendors: Economic crisis as opportunity and threatCities

In 1997, the financial crisis seriously damaged the Thai economy and led to the closing of many companies. Previously, it had been believed...

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...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

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?