Asia & the Pacific

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Wages and Incomes in Formal and Informal Sectors in India

Organizing the ‘Unorganized’: Varieties of Transnational Trade Union Collaboration and Social Dialogue in Two Indian Cities

Special issue on labor in the global South

10 Years of the Better Factories Cambodia Project

From Clean Clothes Campaign: Started in 2001, the goal of the Better Factories program is to improve the working conditions in Cambodian...

Through the Magnifying Glass: Women’s Work and Labour Force Participation in Urban Delhi

A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector

This Handbook is based on the experience of the the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in implementing a two -part “mixed “survey...

Impact of Price Rise on Poor Households

Social Protection for Home-Based Women Workers in South Asia: Learning from Action and Research

This action research project has been carried out by Home Net South Asia with research inputs from the Institute of Social Studies Trust. ...

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.