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- Sweatshop Tales - Bangladeshi Workers in Kuwait by Hana Shams Ahmed [August 29, 2008] - India: NREG two Years On - Where Do We Go from Here? by Santosh Mehrotra [August 2, 2008] - India: - NREGA: ship without rudder? by Jean Drèze [July 19, 2008] - "As If I Am Not Human": Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia by Human Rights Watch [July 8, 2008] - India: Gurgaon Workers News [May 11, 2008] - India: Local Impact of Retailer-Driven Garment Supply Chains by Anuradha Kalhan [January 26, 2008] - Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka by Sandya Hewamanne [n.d. 2007] - India: A Sociological Profile of a Public Sector Workforce by Dilip Subramanian [December 22, 2007] - India: NREGA - Dismantling the contractor raj by Jean Drèze [20 November, 2007] - Gender and Class: Women in Indian Industry by Samita Sen [October 23, 2007] - India: Labour and Closure of a Mill by Manali Chakrabarti [May 26, 2007] - India: Economic Liberalisation, Work and Democracy by Nandini Gooptu [May 26, 2007] - Workers' Organisations in Pakistan: Why no role in formal politics? by Christopher Candland [March 2007] - India: Labour in Brick Kilns: A Case Study in Chennai by Guerin Isabelle , Bhukuth Augendra , Parthasarthy , Venkatasubramanian G [February 17, 2007] - India: Social security for street vendors by Sharit K. Bhowmik [December, 2006] - The Global Indian Software Labour Force: IT Professionals in Europe by Carol Upadhya [2006] - Organizing India's call center comrades by Sudha Ramachandran [November 21, 2006] - Why Unions Fail in Organising India's BPO-ITES Industry by Amandeep Sandhu [October 2006] - National employment guarantee inaction by Jean Drèze [September 12, 2006] - Pakistan: Collective Care Arrangements in the Informal Labour Market by Zeenat Hisam [May 27, 2006] - India: Organising Call Centre Agents - Emerging Issues by Ernesto Noronha , Premilla D'Cruz [May 27, 2006] - UK: 30th Anniversary of the Grunwick Strike [May 16, 2006] - Pakistan: Of Women, Work and Public Spaces: Thoughts on Karachi's Poor by Kamran Asdar Ali [May 1, 2006] - India: Labouring Unity by Bela Malik [April 2006] - Defending Workers Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces by Rohini Hensman (Chapter in: Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains From the Workers Perspective. 2005) - India: Sex workers' Bill continues to stigmatise prostitution by Rakesh Shukla [December 19, 2005] - Pakistan: A Flawed Labour Policy by Karamat Ali and Omar Abbas [December 17, 2005] - India - New Delhi: Trapped to Death: Deaths from fire at a Garment Factory in Vishwas Nagar On the morning of 7 December [2005], a fire, resulting in the death of twelve workers, broke out on the second floor of Groversons Apparels Pvt. Ltd., a garment-manufacturing unit in Vishwas Nagar, East Delhi. by PUDR - Unemployment in Kerala at the turn of the century by K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan [August 2005] - Right to Strike: Indispensable for worker's rights by HRF [June 2005] - India: Labour Activism and Women in the Unorganised Sector by Supriya RoyChowdhury [May 28, 2005] - Street Vendors in Asia: A Review by Sharit K Bhowmik [May 28, 2005] - Deregulation and Labour Policies in a Public Sector Firm by Dilip Subramanian [May 28, 2005] - Labour Flexibility Debate in India by K R Shyam Sundar [May 28, 2005] - Social Reproduction of Third World Labour in the Era of Globalisation by Rakhi Sehgal [May 28, 2005] - India: Worker Politics, Trade Unions and the Shiv Sena's Rise in Central Bombay by Juned Shaikh [April 30, 2005] - Indo Pak Fishermen and the invisible border by Kurram Baig [March 29, 2005] - [Book Review] Labour Flexibility Story in the 1990s by K R Shyam Sundar - An open letter to the Pakistan President re representation of women and labour in local govt bodies [February 2005] Press report with major extracts=> Cut in seats for women, workers opposed [February 16, 2005] - India: Panchayats and employment guarantee by A. Vaidyanathan [February 15, 2005] - India - Shankar Guha Niyogi Murder Trial: Chronicle of A Murder Acquittal Foretold by Rakesh Shukla [February 8, 2005] - [Book Review] From Mills to Malls Loss of a City's Identity by Mariam Dossal [January 29, 2005] - Working class struggles, labour elites and closed shops: the lessons from India’s trade unions and experiences of organisation by Arjan de Haan with Samita Sen [January 2005] - Unemployment guarantee bill by Jean Dreze [December 31, 2004] - UPA Betrays Its Biggest Promise: Mocking at job guarantee by Praful Bidwai [December 27, 2004] - Guaranteeing employment by Amit Bhaduri [December 27, 2004] - Indian Cyber Workers in US by Roli Varma, Everett M Rogers [December 25, 2004] - The Shadow Lines of Citizenship: Prostitutes' Struggle over Workers' Rights by Swati Ghosh [?, 2004] - Behind the Label: The condition of Workers in the Delhi Leather Garments Industry: Leather workers in Delhi working on piece-rates for leather garment exporters organised themselves as the Delhi Leather Karigar Sangathan (DLKS) in 1999. Their lives and struggles for a decent wage by PUDR [?, 2004] - Job Law Can Sharply Cut Poverty This Decade by Santosh Mehrotra [December 18, 2004] - Employment Guarantee for Rural India by A Ganesh Kumar, Srijit Mishra and Manoj Panda [December 18, 2004] - National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Historic Opportunity by Mihir Shah [December 11, 2004] - The Poor in the Indian Labour Force: Scenario in the 1990s by K Sundaram, Suresh Tendulkar [November 27, 2004] - Employment as a social responsibility by Jean Dreze [November 22, 2004] - [India] Employment Guarantee Act - A Primer [October 2004] - Strategies for Labour in Developing Countries by A V Jose [October 2, 2004] - Evasive Reform: Informalization in a Liberalized Economy with Wage-setting Unions by Indraneel Dasgupta abd Sugata Marjit [September 17-18, 2004] (PDF 152KB) - Reforms and Informalization: What Lies Behind Jobless Growth in India by Anushree Sinha [September 17-18, 2004] (PDF 172KB) - A Workable Right to Employment by Mihir Shah [August 24, 2004] - [India] Draft of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2004 [August 14, 2004] - An unconventional convention by Jean Dreze [June 11-13, 2004] - Indian Workers in UAE by K C Zachariah, B A Prakash and S Irudaya Rajan [May 29, 2004] - Unfree Labour in South Asia by A Ercelawn and M Nauman [May 29, 2004] - Railway Porters of Mumbai by Dennis Weitering, Gerben Nooteboom [May 29, 2004] - South Asian Labour for Peace & Development by Karamat Ali and A Ercelan [April 29-30, 2004] Globalisation, Women and Work: What Are We Talking About? by Rohini Hensman [March 6, 2004] Cyber Coolies' in BPO: Insecurities and Vulnerabilities of Non-Standard Work by Babu P Ramesh [January 31, 2004] - A union and a hospital [January 18, 2004] - Old Classes and New Spaces: Urban Poverty, Unorganised Labour and New Unions by Supriya RoyChowdhury [December 13, 2003] - Lalit Deshpande interviewed by Lyla Bavadam (the well known scholar on the labour market studies of Bombay ...on the ehtnic riots for jobs) [December 6, 2003] - Violence forces Indian job recruitment campaign off the rails by Maseeh Rahman [December 5, 2003] - Rethinking the informal economy by Martha Alter Chen [Seminar, December, 2003] - Coping with impoverishment by Jan Breman [Seminar, December, 2003] extract from Working in the Mill No More by Jan Breman. Oxford University Press, 2004 - Solidarity First: An interview with Karamat Ali [November 30, 2003] - People's Courts Demand Corporate Accountability in India (November 25, 2003) - Karachi Declaration at the South Asia Labour for Peace Conference (Sept. 1-2, 2003) - Draft South Asian Labour Rights Charter - Resolution on South Asian Labour Rights Charter - South Asian Labour Forum - Book Review of 'The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka by Naila Kabeer' - The "Low Road" in a Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chain: Capital-Labour Relations in a Hidden Abode of Footwear Production in India by Bernard D'Mello [February 6, 2003] - India: Mysore Kirloskar: Workers' Alternative to Unemployment Attempts by workers to take over and revive companies in crisis have been a recurring response to the threat of closure. Such takeovers are a pragmatic response rather than an ideological reaction for establishing self-management. by Sureshramana Mayya [May 25, 2002] - Book Review: Undermining Patriarchy, Empowering Women Bangladeshi Women Workers and Labour Market Decisions ó The Power to Choose by Naila Kabeer; Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2001; pp 464 , Rs 575 (hardback). by Rohini Hensman [April 6, 2002] - Reebok and the Global Footwear Sweatshop by Bernard D'Mello [February 2002] - Work Organisation and Employment Contracts: Technological Modernisation in Textile Firms by Deepita Chakravarty [February 2002] - Rural Migrants Segmentation and Labour: Micro-Level Evidence from Delhi Slums by Indrani Gupta and Arup Mitra [January 2002] - Conformity or Resistance? Women Workers in Garment Factories in Bangladesh by Petra Dannecker - India: Workers' Rights in a New Economic Order by Jairus Banaji [November 2000] - Teleworking and Teletrade in India: Combining Diverse Perspectives and Visions by Swasti Mitter [June 24, 2000] - Corporate India's pursuit of competitiveness sparks labour unrest by Nikhil Faleiro [April 24, 2000] - World Trade and Workers Rights: To Link or Not to Link? by Rohini Hensman [April 5, 2000] - Living Conditions of Women Workers in the RMG Sector in Bangladesh by Syeda Sharmin Absar (2000) - Organized labour and economic liberalization: India: Past, present and future by Debashish Bhattacherjee [2000] - The Politics of the Labour Movement: An Essay on Differential Aspirations by Dilip Simeon - The case of Indian and Pakistani fishermen, jailed for trespassing into each other country's territorial waters by Mukul - Responses to Globalisation: The Indian Experience by Rohini Hensman - Conformity or Resistance? Women Workers in the Factories in Bangladesh, Working Paper No. 326, Universität Bielefeld, Forschungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie (1999) by Petra Dannecker - On International Labour Migration from Pakistan and the Pakistan Economy - A Book review by Wolfgang-Peter Zingel (Alain Lefebvre: Kinship, honour and money in Pakistan: Subsistence economy and the effects of international migration. London: Curzon Press, 1999) - Metamorphoses of Agrarian Capitalism by Jairus Banaji [Book review of Ecological and Agrarian Regions of South Asia circa 1930, edited by Daniel Thorner; Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1996; pp 148] - A Study of Industrial Labour in Post-Colonial India by Jan Breman, Amsterdam, 1998. (PDF, 248 Kb) - Booking the Bourgeoisie: The Niyogi Murder Trial by C.N. Subramaniam (1999) - Battles for Bangalore: Reterritorialising the City [PDF] by Janaki Nair -The Mobilization of Women into the Garments Factories of Bangladesh by Nazli Kibria (Downloadable File in Microsoft Word 6.0 / 209kb) - Miracle Worker or Womanmachine?: Tracking (Trans)national Realities in Bangaldeshi Factories by Dina M Siddiqui - Worker Co-operatives in India: Lessons from Kamani Is the Kamani experiment,the most celebrated case of worker take-over in India over? What are the lessons it offers?....... by EA Ramaswamy [January 30, 1999] - New Social and New Political Unionism: Labour, Industry, and the State in India and Pakistan by Christopher Candland - Culture in Working Class History: A Discussion by Dipesh Chakrabarty (An edited transcript of a lecture at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute on 25, November 1998.) - First Conference of the Labour History Association of India -Labour Legislation and Trade Unions in India and Pakistan by Ali Amjad (Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2001) - Women and Unions in India by Arun Kumar (from ciber discussion of ICFTU 2000.3.1) The Bombay Textile Workers' Strike of 1982: The Lessons of History, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars by Bharat Patankar - Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector by Sujata Gothoskar - "Power, Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern India," on May 23-25, 1997 at the University of Virginia - A Symposium to honor Professor Emeritus Walter Hauser's contributions to peasant studies - Travail ouvrier et consciences communautaires: l'évolution des mentalités des travailleurs de la mine en Inde contemporaine by Gérard.Heuzé (Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, 1987, Vol. 23, Num. 2, p. 245-260) |
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