Rickshaw ban will make my family poor

Posted on Mon 2 Jun 2008, 10:08 in Work

For thirty years I have been pulling rickshaws in Calcutta, now a law banning hand-pulled rickshaws will see me out of work and my family returned to poverty.

Hard life for child workers

Posted on Wed 30 Apr 2008, 10:56 in Work

I am ten and work as a maid alongside my mother and grandmother. I am too young to work really but we are poor and I have no choice.

Bird flu devastates West Bengal

Posted on Wed 13 Feb 2008, 15:45 in Work

I am a poultry seller in one of the biggest daily markets in Kolkata, but my trade has been shattered by India's bird flu crisis - now I am almost destitute.

Ancient art carried through families

Posted on Tue 15 Jan 2008, 10:51 in Work

I'm Mohammad Imtiaz. I have been inlaying marble at the Taj Mahal since I was a boy. My father taught me and his father him, through centuries of our family.

Rescued child worker fears for future

Posted on Wed 28 Nov 2007, 09:54 in Work

My name is Chotu. I am nine-years-old and I have just been rescued from an embroidery factory by the Delhi police, along with 27 of my friends.

Dancers standing up for our rights

Posted on Tue 30 Oct 2007, 08:46 in Work

I am a nachni, or dancing mistress, part of an ancient Indian tradition. We are treated as slaves by our masters, but now we have begun fighting for our rights.

Ray of hope in tea workers' plight

Posted on Tue 28 Aug 2007, 10:23 in Work

My name is Bifiar Munda. I'm an ex-worker at the Kalchini Tea Estate, in Dooars, North Bengal, and one of thousands of victims of the crisis on Indian tea estates.

My battle to restore Indian temples

Posted on Wed 25 Jul 2007, 10:33 in Work

I have spent three decades restoring crumbling Hindu temples - despite violence and threats from my fellow Muslims.

Hard work will buy education

Posted on Mon 9 Jul 2007, 10:04 in Work

I work a 20-hour-day, roasting meat on the street in Beijing to pay for a better future for my children.

Indian sex workers banking on future

Posted on Mon 11 Jun 2007, 13:39 in Work

A quiet revolution in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata has given sex workers like me independence, respect, and real hope for our future and our children.

Enjoyed the Party? You're fired.

Posted on Sat 10 Mar 2007, 11:10 in Work

Employment assault.

Posted on Thu 1 Mar 2007, 19:23 in Work

Flexible Working for all?

Posted on Wed 14 Feb 2007, 11:57 in Work

Shed magazine celebrates first birthday

Posted on Thu 8 Feb 2007, 10:28 in Work

Counting cost of Christmas do

Posted on Fri 20 Oct 2006, 12:08 in Work

Don't let them get away with it!

Posted on Fri 20 Oct 2006, 09:06 in Work

Extra 30p an hour for some

Posted on Mon 2 Oct 2006, 15:19 in Work