Labour

Across India, unorganised workers registering for the e-Shram card have to wade through rumours of monetary benefits, fear of fraud, and a daunting process.

Lockdowns during the pandemic forced migrant workers across India to return home. Here’s how migrants from East UP coped with the consequences, and how the government, nonprofits, and funders can support them.

Why platform workers need to be included in urban employment guarantee schemes, and what we can do about this.

India still lacks data on migrant workers, the new labour codes are yet to be finalised, and social security programs like NREGA remain underfunded.

In India, trafficking is the result of extreme socio-economic inequalities. The proposed new anti-trafficking law fails to recognise these realities.

A day in the life of Dalit labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, whose personal caste and class struggles have led her to dedicate her life to protect the rights of workers.

A look into the challenges faced by blue-collar workers during this pandemic shows us why we need to build on the momentum of the NEP and invest in skill development.

Traditional gender roles burden women with household work. We need to make efforts to reduce, redistribute, and pay for this labour.

The work crunch due to COVID-19 has put pressure on labour rights, with workers having to do as their companies demand, or lose their jobs.

The working class bears a disproportionate burden of the economic fallout of COVID-19.