India

Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology

In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...

Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism,...

Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...

Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India

The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women....

Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad

NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

Subversive Urban Development in India: Implications on Planning Education

From the paper’s introduction: “Taking example of India, this paper attempts to build this strong critique of the present urban...

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

This case study is from UN-Habitat (2003) Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, The Challenge of Slums, Earthscan, London. More information...