A brick carrier
from India's
Self-Employed
Women's Association
Bibliography of print works
on South Asian labor
- Centre for Education and Communication, based in Delhi since 1982, focuses on alternate ways of organising workers in organised and unorganised sectors
- Centre for Indian Trade Unions
- Demographics of the India workforce from Indiastat.com, derived from 1991 and 2001 Census data and including statistics on wages, labor disputes, trade unions, child workers, marginal workers.
- Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, includes general statistics and description of workers in India, as well as reports on multinational corporations operating there
- Indian National Trade Union Congress
- India's Industrial Safety Council, for workplace health and safety issues
- International Labour Organisation's research on Indian workers, including links to the ILO's conventions and recommendations
- Trade unions in Asia, including links to organizations in most South Asia countries, courtesy of the Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network
- Asian Food Worker, the news bulletin of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
- Asian Labour Update, published by the Asia Monitor Resource Center
- Home Net, published by the International Network for Home Based Workers
- India Together
- Indian Journal of Labour Economics
- LabourFile, a bimonthly Indian journal of labor news and analysis
- LabourStart has up-to-date labor news from world press sources for Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
- Manushi, a journal about women and society
- SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection covers labor issues in the US and abroad
- Third World Network
- Working Class, published by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions
- Child Labor and India, a report by the Indian Embassy.
- Child Labor in India -- MNC Masala, an extensive archive of articles and fact sheets on child labor including information on IMF policies, the effects of globalization, and statements of children's rights organizations.
- Child Labor in Pakistan, an in-depth report published in the Atlantic Monthly.
- Child Labor Public Education Project, includes information about child labor in South Asia and links to workshop materials for K-12 teachers and researchers
- Child Workers in Asia, an NGO site that includes news and research documenting the experience of child laborers, as well as a directory of organizations assisting them in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
- Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India, a report from Human Rights Watch
- Campaign for Labor Rights, monitors sweatshop conditions in countries around the world
- CorpWatch.org monitors multinational corporations around the world, with a strong focus on South Asia
- Sweatshop Watch, a U.S.-based nonprofit that monitors labor conditions in most South Asian countries
- Asmita, a Nepali women's center providing services to poor workers
- Center for Women's Research, based in Sri Lanka, supports work on female labor migration and domestic workers, and promotes women's entry into non-tradition occupations.
- Self Employed Women's Association, a trade union founded in 1972 for self-employed women workers.
- SEWA Bank, which makes loans to small woman-owned businesses
- Sex Workers Manifesto, from the first national conference of sex workers in India, November 1997, in Calcutta, including links to conference reports
- South Asia Women's Network (SAWNET) has a list of South Asian women's organizations, many of which address labor issues
- Women and the Economy in India (PDF format), a 1999 report by the U.S. Census Bureau
- Women Construction Workers in Kerala, India, a working paper on the conditions they face by S.K. Hari Priya of the Bunche Institute on the United Nations
- Working Women's Forum, founded in 1978 and based in Madras, works to unionise women workers in the informal sector.
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