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Pattenden’s article, Will ‘decent work’ or Victorian brutality mark India’s dash for the top?, is on OpenDemocracy.org. It is a great summary with excellent references of the conditions of Indian women construction workers and what I saw while in India. This is what … Continue reading →

A commercial video that featured buff sportswomen wearing Nike in India has been beautifully hacked. Watch this one to see the real women of India, barefoot and buff because they work so hard in construction and agriculture and do all … Continue reading →

Check out this article from Deepika, the Malayalam paper. It is a most excellent description of the work of Miss Thresiamma Mathew and the women of Archana Women’s Centre in Kerala where hundreds of women have been trained in masonry, carpentry … Continue reading →

Please join me for on May 5 as I share my India adventures with you. Susan Moir, Director of Research at the UMass Boston Labor Research Center, has recently returned from 3 months in India. Join us for Indian food … Continue reading →

At 3 am tonight I leave Mumbai and India. I will be home at 3 pm Thursday. I am very glad to see my family and friends and dog, to sleep in cool weather and get back to work that … Continue reading →

I had a fun and interesting couple of days in Pune hosted by Shraddha Borawake, photographer and new relation by marriage to my old friend, Nancy Falk. Shraddha did a project on women in construction some years ago and we … Continue reading →

To my cousins, children, nieces, nephews and all other Moirs, You remember when Auntie Elsie died and I received five big boxes of her stuff and we held the Holy Yard Sale in my yard in Jamaica Plain and I … Continue reading →

I am traveling so much, learning so much and I am so tired. I have not had time/energy to organize pictures, words or thoughts. Tonight I am in the airport in Cochi, Kerala waiting for a late plane to Bangalore. … Continue reading →

Time Laying in my king-sized bed in a 5 star hotel in Jaipur, I watched a short film on the crisis in rural India. One scene, repeated several times, showed a woman in a saree walking through a green field … Continue reading →

I will be here for exactly 12 weeks—arriving on a Thursday and leaving on a Thursday. Today is exactly six weeks in and six to go. The vitality of the public and not-so-public dialogue on caste, class and race is … Continue reading →