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Democracy on trial

What the persecution of political rivals means for the Maldivian democracy

By Azra Naseem

/ 17 Apr 2015

India, 1952

American journalist Louis Fischer’s interactions with Nehru’s contemporaries reveal a tangled reality.

By Rakesh Ankit

/ 10 Apr 2015

Wage board wars

How much should journalists be paid?

By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri

/ 3 Apr 2015

Last resort: Thousands of migrant workers lured to the Maldives are at risk of becoming prisoners in someone else's paradise

In January 2015, the Maldivian government unveiled plans to inaugurate a training programme to create thousands of cashier positions across the country to be filled exclusively by local workers. The

By Neil Merrett

/ 30 Mar 2015

Last resort: Thousands of migrant workers lured to the Maldives are at risk of becoming prisoners in someone else's paradise

White-lipped, blue-collared and invisible

Privatisation in Pakistan and the erosion of a once-strong workers’ movement.

By Sarah Eleazar and Zoon Ahmed Khan

/ 29 Mar 2015

White-lipped, blue-collared and invisible

Labour and its discontents – web-exclusive package

We are excited to announce that our next print issue Labour and Its Discontents (Vol 28 No 1) is now out in print and digital formats. Complementing the quarterly, here

By The Editors

/ 19 Mar 2015

Labour and its discontents – web-exclusive package

Piece by piece: The dark underbelly of India’s garment industry

A bend between a few heaps of garbage leads to the colony of workers employed in the garment factories of Udyog Vihar in Gurgaon, an industrial city in National Capital

By Archana Aggarwal

/ 15 Mar 2015