People's Archive of Rural India Slow train, hard work, low wages, long days Many women domestic workers travel every day from faraway stations on the fringes of the Sundarbans to south Kolkata. The crush of the long train journey adds to the demands of their ceaseless workdays
People's Archive of Rural India From river to plate: the journey of the Sundarbans tiger prawn For village women in the Sundarbans, collecting tiger prawn seedlings is unrewarding and unsavoury work – though the delicacy fetches high prices for others later along the supply chain
The Wire Informal workers organisations wary of new labour reforms Informal workers need pension, provident fund, revised minimum daily and monthly wages
People's Archive of Rural India A right to fish, a fight to live “Why confiscate the canoes and hurt us in the stomach?"