Mumbai I’ve been coming to India regularly for over a decade now, several times per year for many years and annually more recently. There have been visible changes, tall apartment blocks growing like weeds, highways under endless construction finally completed, more people with more money more visible, but all of this in a death grip …
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Visiting the Labor Courts of Bombay
Mumbai A call from a judge in the labor court of Bombay interrupted our meeting, so I tagged along to get a better sense of the Industrial Court system, which along with a Labour Commissioner and many others managed the labor laws of Mumbai and Maharashtra. The courts were in East Bandra, not surprisingly less …
In Mumbai ACORN’s Ragpickers Start Rolling
Mumbai I had a sleepless night in Bengaluru, filled with excitement about our progress in unionizing informal workers and always mindful of the constant challenges of early morning flights in the “jams” of India, all of which combined to leave me exhausted once I hit the Juhu Beach area in Mumbai around noon. No time …