labour and its discontents

Despair and defiance
Tea-garden workers in India and the oppressive conditions and obstacles in mobilising.
Sushovan Dhar | Apr 21, 2015

Labour’s lost agency
Tracing the historical trajectory of worker mobilisation in Sri Lanka to understand its shortcomings in the present.
Balasingham Skanthakumar | Mar 30, 2015

Maruti strikes
Jailed Maruti Suzuki workers continue to fight for bail.
Anumeha Yadav | Mar 27, 2015

Visions of solidarity
A critical examination of literature that points to the possibilities of social and political change.
Ahilan Kadirgamar | Mar 15, 2015

Hunger for Tibet
The latest book on Tibet’s environmental degradation shows how any attempt to save the plateau’s ecosystem must come from within China.
Ross Adkin | Mar 08, 2015

Labour’s lost agency
What happened to the labour movement in Sri Lanka?
Balasingham Skanthakumar | Mar 08, 2015

The world’s dumping yard
Delhi has become an informal electronic waste management hub.
Rohit Inani | Mar 06, 2015

The feminist and the sex worker
Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter.
Srilatha Batliwala | Aug 15, 2010

Knitwear’s race to the bottom
Tripur, in Tamil Nadu has become a glowing- and scalding example of India's plunge into globalised development.