Worker Identity, Agency, and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

Elizabeth Hill, Routledge, 2010. More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy, arguing that work-life reform for informal women workers has moral and social dimensions, as well as economic.