Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I The contemporary Indian labour space -- 1 Labourscape and labour space in post-liberalised India: critical reflections -- 2 Unionisation in post-reform India: a review of trends and trajectories -- 3 Globalisation dynamics and the working-class movement: an agenda for future -- PART II Responding to informality: new approaches -- 4 Breaking the bondage: organising brick kiln workers in rural Punjab -- 5 Safeguarding livelihoods in fisheries: a complex organisational challenge -- 6 The struggle for space: organising street vendors in India -- 7 Domestic workers' movement in Maharashtra: organising experiences of Pune City Domestic Workers' Organisation -- PART III New articulations -- 8 New identities require new strategies: union formation in the Indian IT/ITES sector -- 9 The SEWA Lok Swasthya Mandali: a dual experiment in organising and service provision in Gujarat -- 10 "As human beings and as workers": sex worker unionisation in Karnataka, India -- 11 Organising the unorganised: academic and activist insights from shipbreaking yards in Mumbai -- PART IV The new waves: myths and realities -- 12 Mistaken identities in information technology sector in India: implications for unionisation -- 13 Possibilities and barriers of workers' co-operative: lessons from failed takeover experience of a closed mine in Jharkhand -- 14 Uprisings by women in tea plantations: contextualising the Pombilai Orumai movement in Kerala -- Glossary -- Index