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India, Kashtakari Panchayat, Social-Ecological Transformation | 

The Story of SWaCH: India's Largest Cooperative of Waste Pickers

This short film captures the journey of India’s largest wholly-owned waste picker cooperative, follows its struggles and successes, and presents a nuanced perspective on the integration of informal waste pickers.

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India, Kashtakari Panchayat, Social-Ecological Transformation | 

Mol (Worth)

मोल 'Mol' presents an ethnographic history of the waste picker movement in Pune, told through individual stories of empowerment, transformation and resilience.

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India, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Social Justice | 

First History Lessons: Aspects of War

This book tries to answer many questions surrounding the question of war. Why we still go to war, how the natural world affects war, how can a war in one location change the way of life in a distant place, and what it means to wage war for one’s rights.

This book is the first in the second set of history books for children produced by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata.

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India, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Social Justice | 

First History Lessons: The Flow of Rivers

This book deals with the rivers and how they shape our history.

This book is the second in the second set of history books for children produced by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata.

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India, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Social Justice | 

First History Lessons: The World of Tea

This book deals with the history of tea. The tale of tea contains within itself the histories of Bengal and of Assam, of the Indian subcontinent, and of the world. Let’s unlock this treasure chest, then, and see what stories we can find in the history of tea.

This book is the third in the second set of history books for children produced by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata.

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India, Social Justice | 

"Captain" Suresh and the Union Ship

This comic is based on a study undertaken in 2020-21 by the Centre for Labour Studies at NLSIU, Bangalore, among platform food-delivery workers in Bangalore.

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India, Social Justice | 

An introduction to the world of platform-based taxi work

This reader is based on a study undertaken by the Centre for Labour Studies at NLSIU, Bangalore among platform taxi drivers in Hyderabad.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Can Recruitment be Fair? Possibilities and Paradoxes of Ethical Recruitment in Eastern Himalayas

Nirvan Pradhan explores recruitment zones in the Eastern Himalayas as part of migration infrastructure within the more extensive global labour regimes.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Pawns for Profits - Analysing the Plight of Bangladeshi Female Migrant

The aim of this paper by Ahmad Ibrahim is to recount this history of female migration into KSA from Bangladesh during the 2015-2018 period as an example of collusion between profit-oriented recruiters and the state apparatus, where women were used as a pawn for opening up the more lucrative male labour migration market.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

"United We Stand": Role of Unionisations among the Gig Labours in India

This paper by Rajat Kanti Sur searches for whether unionisation would play an influential role in ensuring safety and socio-economic security for the informal and gig workers.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Literary Imagination of Climate Change and Climate Disasters

In this article, authors, Debashree Chakraborty and Shubhoranjan Dasgupta, explores the literary imaginations of climate change and its effects.

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India, Social Justice | 

Centering Rights in the Platform Workplace: Understanding Legal Frameworks around Algorithmic Management and Upholding Worker Rights

The world of work and social engagement changed when words like ‘google’, ‘uber’ and ‘swiggy’ evolved from nouns to verbs, reflecting the ubiquity of these platforms. This change also mirrored the relentless growth of an ever-hungry goliath of a market, seemingly creating numerous job opportunities in the service sector. But what exactly do digital platforms, specifically digital labour platforms do?

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India, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Social Justice | 

Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment Discrimination and Its Impact on Poverty

The book conducts an in-depth analysis of how employment and wage discrimination affect the income and poverty levels of scheduled caste workers. It advocates for implementing affirmative action policies as a viable solution to address and rectify employment and wage discrimination issues.

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India, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Social Justice | 

First History Lessons: The People of Our Country

The third book of the series talks about the linguistic diversity of the Indian subcontinent and how it has shaped India's international and regional borders since the colonial period. The book also explores the violence of determining 'insider' and 'outsider' based on linguistic identity, which India has frequently witnessed.

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India, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Social Justice | 

First History Lessons: The Languages of Our Country

The second book of the series talks about the complex history of citizenship in post-colonial India, how the Partition shapes the citizenship question, the citizenship act amendments, the reason and consequences of NRC in Assam, and the CAA movement across the country

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