Informal Workers in Ahmedabad City

By Jeemol Unni, Uma Rani on January 01, 2007

Urban India has been in transition for centuries but, perhaps, never more so than since the last decade of the twentieth century when the national economy was opened wide to international trade and competition. "Indian Cities in Transition" seeks to understand the nature of change that Indian cities are undergoing from a multidisciplinary perspective. There are seventeen essays in the volume encompassing the work of urban planners, geographers, demographers, social anthropologists, economists and political scientists. They examine the processes of demographic, environmental, economic, political and social change and their impact on Indian cities. Based on different aspects of change, the articles are categorised under five sub-themes: globalisation and urban restructuring; environmental impacts of liberalisation; economic dimensions of the post-1990s reforms; political economy of change in the planning and management of Indian cities; and, liberalisation and its micro-level impacts. In their chapter, two of WIEGO's Board members (Uma Rani and Jeemol Unni)  examine changes in income and employment structure in the metropolitan city of Ahmedabad. It documents the growing informalisation of the workforce in the city and the gender implications of this process.

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