(a) Books:
- `Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability’, SAAPE, Kathmandu (Co-Authored), 2020
- `Bridging the Gap: Essays on Inclusive Development and Education’, Sage Publications, New Delhi (co-edited), 2011.
- `Dynamics of Rural Labour: A Study of Small Holding Rubber Tappers in Kerala’, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2010.
- `Shifting Trajectories: Work Organisation, Labour Relations and Mobilisation in Contemporary India’, V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, 2008.
- Decent Work: A Handbook (co-authored), V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, 2008.
(b) Articles in Journals and Edited Books:
- `Shared Identities and Blurring Borders: The Case of North East Migrants in Urban Centres, Journal of Human Sciences, Vol. 1, No.1 (2021)
- `Changing Scenario of Indian Labour and New Labour Codes: A Critical Analysis’, Christ University Law Journal, 10(2), December 2021 (Co-authored).
- `News Hunters or Ad Gatherers? Precarious Work of Rural Stringers in Print Media’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 15, April 2021
- Labour Migration in South Asia: Shared Features and Common Solutions’, Journal of Development Policy Review, Vol.1, Issue 4, 2020
- `Small Jobs; Big Worries: Insecurities of Gig Work in the Time of Pandemic’, Journal of Development Policy Review, Vol.1, Issue 3, 2020 (C0-authored)
- `Changing Contours of Internal Migration in India: Centrality of Poverty and Vulnerability, Manpower Journal, Vol. LIV, No.3 & 4, 2020 (Co-authored)
- `Migration Scenario of South Asia: Drivers, ‘Core Determinants’ and Issues’, in Remesh, Babu P., Akhil Ranjan and Mohan Mani (2020): `Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability’, SAAPE, Kathmandu, 2020
- `Women’s Migration in South Asia’, in Remesh, Babu P., Akhil Ranjan and Mohan Mani (2020): `Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability’, SAAPE , Kathmandu, 2020
- `Impact of Covid 19 on Migration in South Asia’, in Remesh, Babu P., Akhil Ranjan and Mohan Mani (2020): `Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability’, SAAPE, Kathmandu, 2020
- `Declining Legal Protection and Deepening Representation-Insecurities in Media Work: The Case of Print Journalists in India’, Journal of Indian Law and Society, Vol.9, May 2020.
- `Growth of Informal and Precarious Work in Journalism: The Indian Scenario’, SAAPE Bulletin, Issue No.20, South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication, Kathmandu, September 2019.
- ` Re-reading the ‘Auto-revolution’ in India with a Labour Lens: Shifting Roles and Positions of State, Industry and Workers’ in D’Costa, Anthony P. & Chakraborty, Achin (Ed.) Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State : New Perspectives on Development Dynamics, Springer, 2019
- `New Jobs and Old Norms? Viewing Women’s Work in India’s Call Centres through a Gender Lens’, The JMC Review, Vol. II, 2018
- `Unpaid Workers and Paid News: Working Conditions of Journalists in India' in Athique, Adrian, Parthasarathi, Vibodh & Srinivas, S.V (Ed.): The Indian Media Economy, Vol. II: Market Dynamics and Social Transactions, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018
- Does Employment Guarantee Support a Social Protection Floor? A Case Study of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India in Dijkhoff, Tineke and Mpedi, Letlhokwa George (Ed.) `Recommendation on Social Protection Floors: Basic Principles for Innovative Solutions’, Alphen aan den Rijn: The Netherlands; Wolters Kluwer, 2018.
- `Informalization of Work in the Formal Sector: Conceptualizing the Changing Role of State in India’ in Ermesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz (Ed.), `Critical Perspectives of Work and Employment in India’, Springer, 2017.
- 'Automotive Revolution' in Neo-liberal India: Evolution, Structure and Prospects' in Rudolf Traub-Merz (ed.), 'The Automotive Sector in Emerging Economies: Industrial Policies, Market Dynamics and Trade Unions ' , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung,Berlin (2017).
- `Migration and Marginalisation: The Case of North East Migrants in Delhi’ in Deepak Mishra (Ed.) Internal Migration in India, SAGE (2016).
- `The New Wave of ‘Replacement Migration’ and Inter-State Migrants in Kerala’ (co-authored), NIU International Journal of Human Rights, Vol.1, No.1, 2015.
- `Informal Labour in the Information Economy: Job Insecurities in India’s Call Centers’, Yojana (Special Issue on Informal Sector), Vol.58, 2014.
- `Developing Open and Distance Learning Programme in Labour and Development: Results of a Need Assessment Study’, Indian Journal of Open Learning, (2014).
- `Quantity, Quality and Disparities: Interrogating Employment in India’s IT and ITES/BPO Sector’ in Bino Paul (Ed.), `Employment in India’, E-social sciences, Mumbai (2014).
- `Indian Labour Standards in Global Production Systems: The Case of IT/ITES Sector’ in Bhowmik (Ed.) `The State of Labour: The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact, Routledge, New Delhi (2014) .
- `Fundamental Rights of Workers at Stake: Dissecting the Maruti Workers’ Struggles’ in Sekar and Dhanya (Eds.) `Worker’s Right and Practices in the Contemporary Scenario: An Overview’, V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA (2014).
- `City-bound Out-Migration from the North East India: A Case Study of Delhi’, Social Change and Development, Vol.X, No.1, January 2013.
- `Strangers in Their Own Land, Youth Migration from India's North-East to Delhi’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII No. 22, June 02, 2012.
- `Role of Unorganised Sector in Development’, Unit of Self Learning Material Prepared for Master of Extension and Development Studies Programme, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (2011).
- Changing Profiles of Work Organisation, Terms of Work and Labour in India’s Service Sector: A Case Study of Domestic Call Centres’, Labour and Development, Vol.17, December 2010.
- `Nuclear Radiation Incident in Mayapuri: Disquieting Signals to Labour’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45 No. 30 July 24 - July 30, 2010 (Co-authored with C.P. Vinod)
- `Report to People on Employment: A Bird’s Eye View or An Eyewash?’, Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. 45 No. 38 September 18 - September 24, 2010 (Co-authored with Neetha N.)
- `Economic Upgrading in India’s IT/ITES and BPO Sectors’ in Bhatt , M.S. and Illiyan, Ashraf (ed.), `Information Technology (IT) in the Indian Economy’, New Century Publications, New Delhi (2009)
- `Rethinking Social Protection for India’s Working Poor in the Unorganised Sector’, South Alternatives, Vol.XVI-2009, No.2, 2009 (French Translation)
- `Work Organisation, Controls and ‘Empowerment’: Managing the Contradictions of Call Centre Work’ in Carol, Upadhya and Vasavi, A.R (ed.) `In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India’s Information Technology Industry’, Routledge, New Delhi and Abington, 2008.
- `Gender Implications of Outsourced Work in the New Economy: A Case Study of Domestic Call Centres’ , The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 51, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2008 (Coauthored with Neetha N.)
- `Employment Patterns and Trends in India during the Post-Reforms Period in Prakash, B.A (Ed). The Indian Economy since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2009
- `Impact of Privatisation on Terms of Work, Work Relations and Local Level Development: Insights from BALCO Disinvestment’, Labour and Development, Vol.13 & 14, Nos. 1 & 2, June 2008
- `Optional or Imposed? An Ex-post Evaluation of Voluntary Retirement Scheme in BALCO’, Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Labour, Vol. 42, No.21, May 26 – June 1, 2007
- `Empowering Rural Labour: The Kancheepuram Experiment’ in Verma et.al (Ed.), `Empowering Rural Workers: Dynamics of Strategic Interventions, Sunrise Publications, New Delhi, 2005
- ‘Employment and Labour Aspects of Business Process Outsourcing in India’, Productivity, Vol.45, No.2, 2004.
- `Cyber Coolies in BPO: Insecurities and Vulnerabilities of Non-Standard Work’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.39, No. 5, January 31-February 6, 2004
- Women Workers in the New Economy: Call Centre Work in NOIDA, Labour and Development, Special Issue on Globalisation and Women’s Work, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2004 (Co-authored with Neetha N.)
- `Changing Consciousness and Image of Kerala Labour in the 20th Century’, Labour and Development, Vol.9, No.1, June 2003
- `Informalisation of Production and Changing Labour Relations in Handloom Silk Weaving of Kancheepuram’, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 45, No. 4, October-December 2002
- `Social Dialogue in India: Status and Challenges’, Awards Digest – Journal of Labour Legislation, Vol.27, Nos. 7&8, July-August 2001
- `Conflict Resolution and Worker Conscientisation: Rethinking the Rural Labour Camp Strategy’, Labour and Development, Vol.5, No.1 December 1999
- `Trends, Patterns and Effects of Cross Breeding Technology: A Reassessment in the Context of Kerala’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Conference Volume, 1995
(c ) Select Research Reports
- `South Asia Poverty and Vulnerability Report’, South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Kathmandu 2020 (Lead Author)
- `Migration in India: Seeking Connections to Poverty, Inequality and the Neo-liberal State’, SAAPE South Asia Migration Report’s India-Country Report, 2019
- Report of the Major Research Study on `Changing Dimensions of Labour and Employment in Media: A Study of Print Journalists’, Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, 2020.
- Report of the Need Assessment Study on `Developing Open and Distance Learning Programmes in `Labour and Development’ , School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2014
- Promoting Decent Work in Global Production Systems: A Case Study of BPO Sector in India, ILO/JILPT, Bangkok, 2009.
- Report of the Action Research Project on `Assessing the Social Security Measures and Promoting the Participation of Beneficiaries for Effective Implementation’, (Co-authored), submitted to UNDP, New Delhi, 2008.
(d) Working Papers (Based on Completed Projects/Talks):
- Permanently Temporary? On Informal Jobs in the Formal Sector, 36th Poverty Report, Lokashraya Foundation, New Delhi, 2017.
- `Migration of Youth from North Eastern Region to Urban Centres: A Case Study of NCR Region’, Research Studies Series No. VVGNLI, 2012.
- `Labour Landscape in the Capital’, Policies and Practices, N0.43, January 2012
- `Social Security for Unorganised Sector Workers in India: A Critical Review’ (Co-authored with Anoop K. Satpathy), Research Study Series, VVGNLI, 2010
- `Impact of Privatisation on Labour: A Study of BALCO Disinvestment’, Research Study Series, No.72, VVGNLI, 2004
- `Labour Relations in Small Holding Plantations: The Case of Rubber Tappers in Kerala’, Research Study Series, No.53, VVGNLI, 2004
- `Labour in Business Process Outsourcing: A Case Study of Call Centre Agents’, Research Study Series, No.51, VVGNLI, 2004
- `Organising and Empowering Rural Labour: Lessons from Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu’, Research Study Series, No.34, VVGNLI, 2002.
- ‘Organisational Structure, Labour Relations and Employment in Kancheepuram Silk Weaving’, Research Study Series, No.21, 2001.
- ‘Wage Determination in Rural Labour Markets; An Inter-Occupational Analysis’, Research Study Series, No.9, VVGNLI, 2000 (Co-authored with J. Jeyarenjan & A.C.K Nambiar).
- `Rural Wages: On Developing an Analytical Framework’, Research Study Series, No.7, VVGNLI, 2000.
(e) Regular Column on Labour History – “Labour in Those Years” in `Labour File’, a bi-monthly journal of labour and economic affairs (from 2005 to 2014)
Select Titles:
- `A Struggle for Fair Share: Recounting the Tebhaga Movement, 1946–47’, Labour File, Vol.9-No.1-2, 2014
- `ILO: Nine Decades of Labour for Labour’, Labour File, Vol.8, No.1-3, January June 2010
- `Bhopal Gas Tragedy’, 1984: The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster’, Labour File, Vol.6, No.6, November-December 2008
- `Mavoor: A Story of Corporate Social `Irresponsibility’ and Lost Livelihoods, Labour File Vol.6, No. 3, May-June, 2008
- `Narayan Lokhande: Founder of the Indian Labour Movement’,Labour File Vol.6, No.2, March-April, 2008
- `Unsung Episodes of `Corporate Benevolence’: Chronicling the TISCO Workers Struggles in the 1920s’, Labour File, Vol.6, No:1, January-February 2008
- `Indentured Workers’ uprising in Plantation Leonora, 1869’ , Vol.5, No5&6, September-December 2007
- `Recalling Bombay Textile Workers Strike, 1982’, Vol.5. No.1 & 2, 2007
- `A Shocking September for Labour Movement in Chhattisgarh: Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi’, Vol.4, No.5, 2006
- `Capital’ for Labour! : Karl Marx and an Unforgettable July, Vol.4, No.4, 2006
- `Striking Memories of May 1974 and the Indian Railway Workers’Vol.4, No.3, 2006
- `Champaran Satyagraha for Indigo Workers: Memorable April in Mahatma’s Diary’ , Vol.4, No.2, 2006
- `Rise and Fall of a Worker’s Cooperative: The Saga of Kerala Dinesh Beedi’ , Vol.4, No.1, 2006
- `Kilvenmani: Memories of a Haunting Christmas Night’ , Vol.3. No.5, 2005. `Labour Day in September: The History and Contemporary’, Vol.3. No.6, 2005.
(f) Publications in Newspapers and Periodicals
- `What Lakhimpur Kheri incident tells us about 'invisible workers' of media industry’, News9Live, October 12,2021
- `No Strings Attached’ (on Job Insecurities of Stringers in Media), The Telegraph, June 20, 2021
- `News Hunters or Ad-getters? The Insecure World of Rural Stringers in Media’, The Print, 19 April 2021.
- Labourers who are not Labourers’ (on Insecurities of Gig Work), Mathrubhumi Weekly (Malayalam), October 11, 2020.
- `We the Migrants’ (on Shared Destiny of Migrants in South Asia), The Indian Express, September 10, 2020.
- `Babus without Rights’ (on Informalisation of Workforce in Formal Sector), The Indian Express, June 21, 2016.
(g) Book Reviews and Editorial Expertise
Published-book reviews in many Journals including: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, The Book Review, Labour and Development, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Social Change and Development and Indian Anthropologist. Served as Associate Editor for `Labour and Development’, for more than 10 years (1998-2009). Currently, member of editorial advisory boards/review committees of a few prominent journals in social sciences, including Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Social Action, NIU International Journal of Human Rights and so on.