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Chapter 1. Against the grain: Indian women negotiate land, labour and livelihoods in the new millennium; Bina Fernandez, Orlanda Ruthven and Meena Gopal
Section I. Owning Land, Disowning Women
Chapter 2. Tribal women organising for land rights in Dahod and Panchmahaals, Gujarat; Sita Mamidipudi and Sejal Dand
Chapter 3. Securing land rights for women: government land allocation in Odisha; Sonali Mohapatra
Chapter 4. Deserted and widowed women's struggle for land and livelihood: a case from Maharashtra; Sneha Bhat
Chapter 5. Claiming space, claiming rights: Inheritance and land rights for Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh, India; Niti Saxena and Soma K. Parthasarathy
Section II. Marginalised and stigmatised labour
Chapter 6. Female labour in tea plantations: Labour process and labour control; Ashmita Sharma
Chapter 7. Sex work as livelihood: Women, men, and transgender sex workers in Karnataka; Shubha Chacko, Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar
Chapter 8. Nhavi women in Pune city: renegotiating new opportunities for livelihood; Archana Zende
Section III. Education, mobility and skills
Chapter 9. Karma and the myth of the new Indian Super Woman: Missing women in the Indian Workforce; Bhavani Arabandi
Chapter 10. "Here, we are addicted to loitering": exploring narratives of work and mobility among migrant women in Delhi; Sonal Sharma and Eesha Kunduri
Chapter 11. All aboard the Job Train: Government-funded training and recruitment in India's apparel industry; Orlanda Ruthven
Chapter 12: Care (un)skilled: fragmented labour markets in nursing, contemporary Kolkata; Panchali Ray
Section IV
Collective strategies
Chapter 13: Making waste matter: Re-imagining urban renewal and advocating for waste-pickers' right to a dignified livelihood; Sohnee Harshey and Pratibha Sharma
Chapter 14: Self-Employment, waged or unpaid work: influences on the choices of poor women; Dimple Tresa Abraham
Chapter 15: Renegotiating patriarchal bargains? Rural women's collective livelihood initiatives in India; Bina Fernandez.
Section I. Owning Land, Disowning Women
Chapter 2. Tribal women organising for land rights in Dahod and Panchmahaals, Gujarat; Sita Mamidipudi and Sejal Dand
Chapter 3. Securing land rights for women: government land allocation in Odisha; Sonali Mohapatra
Chapter 4. Deserted and widowed women's struggle for land and livelihood: a case from Maharashtra; Sneha Bhat
Chapter 5. Claiming space, claiming rights: Inheritance and land rights for Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh, India; Niti Saxena and Soma K. Parthasarathy
Section II. Marginalised and stigmatised labour
Chapter 6. Female labour in tea plantations: Labour process and labour control; Ashmita Sharma
Chapter 7. Sex work as livelihood: Women, men, and transgender sex workers in Karnataka; Shubha Chacko, Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar
Chapter 8. Nhavi women in Pune city: renegotiating new opportunities for livelihood; Archana Zende
Section III. Education, mobility and skills
Chapter 9. Karma and the myth of the new Indian Super Woman: Missing women in the Indian Workforce; Bhavani Arabandi
Chapter 10. "Here, we are addicted to loitering": exploring narratives of work and mobility among migrant women in Delhi; Sonal Sharma and Eesha Kunduri
Chapter 11. All aboard the Job Train: Government-funded training and recruitment in India's apparel industry; Orlanda Ruthven
Chapter 12: Care (un)skilled: fragmented labour markets in nursing, contemporary Kolkata; Panchali Ray
Section IV
Collective strategies
Chapter 13: Making waste matter: Re-imagining urban renewal and advocating for waste-pickers' right to a dignified livelihood; Sohnee Harshey and Pratibha Sharma
Chapter 14: Self-Employment, waged or unpaid work: influences on the choices of poor women; Dimple Tresa Abraham
Chapter 15: Renegotiating patriarchal bargains? Rural women's collective livelihood initiatives in India; Bina Fernandez.