India

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...

Subversive Urban Development in India: Implications on Planning Education

From the paper’s introduction: “Taking example of India, this paper attempts to build this strong critique of the present urban...

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

This case study is from UN-Habitat (2003) Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, The Challenge of Slums, Earthscan, London. More information...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship...