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Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee Author

Dev Nathan is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi; and Research Director at the GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Haryana, India. His research interests range from the nature of global production to development issues of indigenous peoples and gender relations. He co-authored the book Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (2020). Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee is a lawyer and researcher focused on migration, supply chains, gender, caste and race in the global economy. She has conducted research and advocacy in collaboration with global institutions like Human Rights Watch, the International Labour Organization and Global Labour Justice-International Labor Rights Forum. S. Rahul teaches at the School of Management and Labour Studies of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His professional interests are aligned in social analytics and research especially in the areas of developmental research, labour market and global value chains. Purushottam Kumar is a researcher and currently working as a senior program manager with Society for Labour and Development, New Delhi. His research focuses on labour rights in the global value chains of the leather, garment and seafood processing industries. Immanuel Dahaghani is a research consultant from Chennai whose work is focused on labour rights and labour welfare in garments, leather and automobile sectors. He has worked with the Society for Labour and Development (SLD) and the Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA). Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His research interests lie in small producer and worker livelihoods and collectivization of stakeholders in the context of agribusiness value chains and deregulation of agricultural markets in India and the developing world. Padmini Swaminathan is former Director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, where she also held the post of the Reserve Bank of India Chair in Regional Economics. Her research work covers the areas of industrial organization, labour, occupational health and skill development.