India

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

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...

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha’s experiences in central India

Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative...

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: 'Citizens' versus the Urban Poor

Part I: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Women in the Indian Informal Economy: Collective Strategies for Work Life Improvement and Development

A Spreading Banyan Tree: the Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India

“This is a beautifully crafted, path-breaking study that upends conventional wisdom about the relentless demise of labor movements. ...

Role of Informal Recyclers in Small and Medium Towns in India

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...