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…Constructions of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814–1926”. In Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History 1800–2000, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen, 1–33. New Delhi: Macmillan….

…states with at least 83% of workers in the region being migrants. In Kuwait for example, 90% of domestic workers come from Bangladesh, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Domestic…

…Indian students, who had stopped attending classes at Greenwich, Chester, and Teesside universities shortly after arriving in the U.K., working in exploitative conditions in the care sector in Wales. They…

In early 2022, a video circulated on social media of a trafficking victim from Punjab, a state in northern India, pleading for help: “I have been held captive in Cyprus…

…coronavirus crisis. In India, the world’s largest lockdown has seen over a billion people forced to stay inside and—in cases where the workplace also provided accommodation—caused many informal migrant workers…

…their jobs due to recruitment fees which are likely illegal. One woman from south India who went to work in a Manchester-based care home under a government initiative aiming to…

India’s Supreme Court has officially defined sex work as a profession, calling for an end to police violence against sex workers, and for greater labor protections. This ruling expanding the…

…follow the example of India, where government restrictions forced the closure of many international nongovernmental organizations. Thai government claims that they are aiming to create “transparency” in the non-profit sector…

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“We are like the medieval serfs serving a king. Our role in life is understood to be servants of rich men who own vast lands but cannot cultivate it themselves,”…