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The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually clean drains and septic tanks in urban areas. This is also manual labour and involves the use of hands in cleaning excreta. Workers have to enter manholes to...
Ahmedabad construction workers show signs of unrest, unite to demand higher wages, social protection
In what seemed to be their first-ever show of strength, representatives of Ahmedabad’s construction workers, over 1,000 of them, came together to demand a sharp rise in their wage from around Rs 200 to Rs 250, which they get now, to Rs 500. Organized by the Majur Adhikar Manch, which claims to...
This article gives a brief explanation of the Bill for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in the Lok Sabha. This Bill was introduced as a landmark for protection of the sector of informal workers and it is seen as an outcome of the consistent efforts from different...
This brief presents numbers and analysis of home-based workers in India from 1999-00 to 2011-12. It is based on data collected by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) through the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-00, 2004-05 and 2011-12. This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication...
In recent years, there has been an effort to clearly define informality along two axes, the legal status of the enterprise, that is, the informal sector, on one hand, and the job status of the worker, that is, informal employment, on the other. However, we argue that a strict duality of definitions...
This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been defined with the help of various dimensions of employment such as size of the employment at the firm, place of work, type of work contract, and eligibility for...
The labour market in India is segmented into the formal and informal sectors, with the informal sector being further heterogeneous. This study estimates the returns to education in different segments of the labour market in urban India by using primary data collected in two cities—Delhi and Ranchi...
This paper draws on household survey data in two Indian cities, Delhi and Ranchi to study key issues related to poverty and social protection in urban India. We consider the case of targeted public distribution system (TPDS) in India to assess the efficiency in targeting for the intended...
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the National Urban Transport Policy have given a boost to bus rapid transit systems in many Indian cities and Ahmedabad’s Janmarg is the largest such network now in operation. This paper shows that while catering to latent transport demand...
This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included are examples of collective bargaining by waste pickers in Brazil, domestic workers in Uruguay, street traders in Liberia, bidi workers in India, and minibus...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.