Asia & the Pacific

City adaptation strategies: Recognising livelihood struggles of migrant workers in India

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...

In the Footsteps of GandhiNational Geographic

Abstract: The article discusses brief profile of Indian freedom fighter leader Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy. Topics include his salt march,...

A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in GuangzhouIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Cornell-SEWA-WIEGO 2008 Dialogue – Ahmedabad and Delhi – Compendium of Personal and Technical Notes

Sumário Executivo: Trabalhadoras Domiciliares em Ahmedabad, na Índia

From Green Revolution to Rural Industrial Revolution in South IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly

Abstract: The economic reforms of the 1990s have deprioritised the agricultural sector and also diverted attention away from scholarly concerns...

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...

If Street Food Disappears — Projecting the Cost for Consumers in Bangkok