While post-Fordism and neo-liberalism changed the way labour was viewed, technology and wide spread digitization has built upon the same principles, giving way to a new form of work – the Gig Economy. Over the last decade, ‘on-demand’ work guided by app-based platforms such as Uber, Ola,...

The ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and policies’ research project within the Growth and Equal Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was carried out in four countries: India, Nepal, Rwanda and...

The Construction sector share of 9% in the GDP of India. It employs roughly 5.5 crore daily wage labourers. The sector also houses the highest number of workers who have migrated. However, only 3.5 crore workers are registered with Construction Welfare Boards. The data on the construction sector...

The report highlights the precarious nature of gig work and dismantles the idea of ‘flexibility’ which has often been touted as the reason for popularity of the gig economy for workers across the globe and especially considered suitable for women workers. Workers continue to be deprived of...

The initial phases of Covid-19 proved to be devastating for many people in India. The national lockdown announced by the central government led to a panic situation particularly in urban slums with a high density of population, where a large majority of people lived with poor access to public...