India

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

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

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Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...

Learning to Re-E-Cycle

Published by Chintan

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Street Vendors in Ahmedabad: Status, Contribution and Challenges

From the preface: “This Working Paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India

In Ahmedabad, WIEGO partnered with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) to carry out this study. This report outlines key findings...

Measuring Informality of Employment in Urban India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

In recent years, there has been an effort to clearly define informality along two axes, the legal status of the enterprise, that is, the...

Pune’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations