Asia & the Pacific

Hawkers and the Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Street Vending in Seven Cities

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the problems of street vendors in urban areas. The study discusses the profession...

Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

Gender and Globalization: Opportunities and Constraints Faced by Women in the Construction Industry in India

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Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

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Trade and Employment in Services: The Case of Indonesia

This study examines the importance of the services sector and its linkages with other sectors in terms of value-added and employment from...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

SEWA Project: Productivity Impact Study

SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal...

Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part II – ‘Informal’ Industry

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy,...

The Material and the Symbolic: Intersectionalities of Home-Based Work in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly

Capital has an overarching logic of accumulation in general and yet the economic rationale, intercepted by national and local configurations...