Asia & the Pacific

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

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

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Trabalhadores Domiciliares em Lahore, Paquistão

City Report (English)

The struggle for outwork reform in the Australian clothing industryJournal of Australian Political Economy

Bangkok’s Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations and Urban Change

Rights of Home-based Workers

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

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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India’s Informal Workers and Social Protection

A publication of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania