Migrants form a crucial lifeline for the booming apple industry in Kashmir with employers preferring to hire them over locals for their “dedication and punctuality”
Changes in the world’s biggest job guarantee scheme will have the most significant impact on rural women and might fuel distress migration amongst men, warn researchers
Many migrant workers from Telangana who left as semi-skilled workers to the Gulf are returning with improved skills and experience. But the local labour markets are unable to absorb them into stable employment, finds a new survey
Inside Maharashtra’s Pench Tiger Reserve, youth trained as forest guides find new job opportunities, fresh perspectives on the wildlife living in their backyards
The closure of Mumbai’s iconic B. Merwan Irani café signals the slow dimming of a city long shaped around its working-class communities
Dr. Sandeep Pai, Senior Lead, International Energy Transitions, at Duke university discusses with labour and public policy researcher Namrata Raju what transitioning away from coal looks like for India’s vast informal workforce
A simple database created via WhatsApp aims to track thousands of workers who leave the eastern coastal state, beset with rampant distress migration, in search of employment.
Journalist Jyoti Yadav’s new book ‘Faith and Fury: Covid dispatches from hinterlands’ documents the many journeys of migrant workers during the pandemic lockdown
Khamdodgi’s sudden online popularity brought tourists and jobs, but the shift was rooted in the rare enforcement of laws that allowed villagers to govern their forests and water bodies.
Every festival, Bundelkhand’s migrant workers undertake long train journeys to get home but the happiness of homecoming is shortlived as husbands and sons leave once the festivities are over, while women stay back to shoulder agricultural and care work.
Through his Kochi-Muziris Biennale installation, Only the Earth Knows Their Labour, artist…
The migrant workforce in the Gulf has weathered many geopolitical tensions and…
Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due…
Flight disruptions caused by the West Asia conflict have forced Indian workers…
Snigdha Poonam, journalist and author of 'Scamlands: Inside the Asian Empire of…
Meagre returns from weaving and stiff competition from powerlooms have forced rural…
