The reforms to labour laws during the pandemic, devastating as they are for workers across the country, are not surprising. Since liberalisation, there has been a slow erosion of labour rights in the name of enabling the ‘ease of doing business’ through ‘labour flexibility’. The changes...

Feminist evaluation, as an approach to evaluation that exposes and critically assesses gender and other sources of inequalities, is a new and emerging field in India. Over the last several years, responding to the increased attention given to evaluation in policy circles, there has been a...

Feminist evaluation, as an approach to evaluation that exposes and critically assesses gender and other sources of inequalities, is a new and emerging field in India. Over the last several years, responding to the increased attention given to evaluation in policy circles, there has been a...

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 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...