Region: 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...

Informality as the Bane of the Laboring Poor Under Globalized Capitalism

Note from the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Empowering Women in an Insecure World. Joining SEWA Makes a Difference.

Abstract: This paper examines what significance membership in SEWA has. SEWA, a trade union of self-employed poor women, uses several strategies...

Wages and Incomes in Formal and Informal Sectors in India

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...

Definitional and Statistical Issues: Task force Report

This is a report of the  Task Force  set up to review the existing definitions and evolve a set of criteria for  common definitions of un-organised/informal...

Chintan: Counterbalance Video

Where waste picker Mohammad Nazir from Delhi explains how they earn less (because of less access to waste due to the new private company...

Labour Markets in China and India: Looking through a Common Prism

Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Domestic Workers: Conditions, Rights and Responsibilities

A study of part-time domestic workers in Delhi by researchers at Jagori.