1. Informality in India : a workers' perspective -- 2. Constitutional rights and informal workers' struggle -- 3. Freedom as human development -- 4. Social dialogue in promoting decent work -- 5. A capability approach to labour law -- 6. Capability deprivations of waste pickers in India -- 7....

The Capability Approach envisages a human-centred idea of development instead of an income-based idea of development. Economic development is only one of the components in human capability development. Economic development by itself cannot ensure capability promotion amongst individuals,...

In India, more than ninety percent of the workforce is informal. In spite of this enormous percentage of informal workers, these workers remain invisible from law and policy circles. One of the reasons for such exclusion and invisibility is the absence of unionism involving informal workers. In...