Subject(s): Informal sector (Economics) in India. -- Women in development in India. -- Women in India in Economic conditions. -- Non-recognition and exclusion, Informal sector, Social foundation of economic development, Social struggle and the politics of development -- Informal sector : Historical perspective, Enterprise, market and state, International labour organisation in the 1970s, World bank, Hernando de Soto - Economic populist, Neo Marxist approaches to the informal sector, Marginalist approach, Economic dualism, Petty commodity production, Informalisation, women in Informal sector -- Reconceptualising labour in the informal sector : Labour,Sen's capacity approach, Labour-Marxist account, Social relations of informal production , Relations and conditions of reproduction -- Exploring a labour focused strategy for productivity and well being in the informal economic- Background and methods : Self employed women's association, Labour and Indian informal economy -- Mapping problems- Work life experience in the Indian informal economy Macro, Micro and Meso level, Structural subordination and exploitative social relations of production, Restricted access to productive inputs, Low income and poor work conditions , -- Interventions for work life improvement- Case of the self employed women's association : SEWA- organising workers for full employment and self reliance, Gandhian way, Alternative economic institutions at the meso level, Trade co-operative, Shri MAhila Sewa Sahakari bank, Social security co-operatives and service, Tripartite trade agreement. Information clearing house -- Moral dynamics of union membership: Poverty and culture of fear, Psychological well being and participation in the political economy, Honneth's theory of moral injury, Women workers in Informal sector -- Agency , freedom and economic development : Union membership, Dialectics of agency, Union membership, socio-economic well being, Mechanics of empowerment, Nussbaum's combined capabilities, Worker agency and economic development -- Public action for economic development : Formalising and mainstreaming in public action and informal economy, State action for development, World bank, Scholars of Indian labour, International labour organisation and decent work -- Politics of economic development : Social capital formation of public action, power, Monopoly political and economic power in the Dumali dairy market, Death threat and childcare in Kheda district, Sexual division of labours, Politics of economic development, Politically led development