India

Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won

In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

“I, Too, am Delhi”: People’s Campaign Calls for Inclusion in Indian Capital’s Master Plan

India’s capital city is preparing its roadmap for the future – a new master planning document that sets out the vision for Delhi for two...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

Globalization and Economic Reform as Seen From the Ground: SEWA’s Experience in India

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Do Economic Reforms Influence Home-Based Work? Evidence From 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

Give Back Our Waste

Summary from Chintan: Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally...

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...