Down and Out in Ahmedabad
Migrant workers, who are often landless labourers, seek succour and refuge in night shelters mandated by the Supreme Court of India.
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India’s Handloom Challenge
The Indian weaver is dismissed in high places as an embarrassing anachronism, despite demand for his or her skills and products. In the new...
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Multiple Shocks and Slum Household Economies in South IndiaEconomy and Society
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the...
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Africa’s World Trade: Informal Economies and Globalization from Below.
Are Africa’s world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the...
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Research Reports
Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA
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Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...
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Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management
The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...
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Books & Book Chapters
Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour
this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal...
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Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal
This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....
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Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: The case of home-based clothing workers in AustraliaAustralian Journal of Labour Law
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