India

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions

This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...

Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets

National Commission on Rural Labour

Middle-class activism and the politics of the informal working class – A perspective on class relations and civil society in Indian cities

Abstract: This article compares political activism amongst members of the middle class and the informal working class in three Indian cities,...

Integrating Waste Pickers into Municipal Solid Waste Management in Pune, India

No person should have to be immersed in solid waste for their livelihood, yet every day hundreds of thousands of informal waste pickers in...

Measuring the Informal Economy

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...

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

The Beedi Industry in India: An Overview

A report on Improving Working Conditions and Employment Opportunities for Women Workers in Beedi Industry by Best Practices Foundation for...