India

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers

This is the Executive Summary of the full Sector Report that synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

Industrial Conflict in India in the Post-Reform Period

The processes of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation were expected to weaken the bargaining power of workers vis-à-vis employers...

The Oppressive Labour Conditions of the Working Poor in the Peripheral Segments of India’s Garment Sector

Development Viewpoint, No. 81

Food SecurityEconomic and Political Weekly

Bihar’s public distribution system used to be one of the worst in India, but the system has improved significantly from 2011 onwards....

Nos enfants ne reçoivent pas l’attention qu’ils méritent

Cette publication présente les résultats d’une étude de recherche dans cinq villes examinant l’accès des travailleuses de l´informel...

India’s Informal Economy: Facing the Twenty-First Century

Overview:

Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

Gender and Globalization: Opportunities and Constraints Faced by Women in the Construction Industry in India

Abstract:

Informal Workers’ Movements in India

Summary:Since the 1980s, the world’s governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected “informal”...