• Globalization and labour; urban poverty; social movements; comparative development.

• Ph.D., Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1992

• “Class in Industrial Disputes:Case Studies from Bangalore” Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Labour, vol. Xl111, no 22. 2008 .

• “Slums and Civil Society: the Limits of Urban Activism”, in Darshini Mahadevia (ed) Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies and Public Actions, Concept, 2008.

• “Public Sector Restructuring and Democracy: the State, Labour and Trade Unions in India”” Journal of Development Studies, vol.39, no.3, February 2003.  reprinted in Rahul Mukherjee(ed)India’s Economic Transition: the Politics of Reforms, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.

• “Globalization and Labour”, in Baldev Raj Narain (ed) Globalization and Politics in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007.

• “Informality in Globalised Forms of Production”,  The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol.50, no.4, 2007. 

• “Labour and Economic Reforms: Disjointed Critiques”, in Jos Mooji (ed) The Politics of Economic Reforms in India, 2005, Sage: New Delhi

• “Rethinking Comparative Politics: Towards a Critique of Neo-Statism in Third World Studies”, in Ananta K Giri (ed) Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and Methods, 2004, Maryland, Lexington Books.

• “Labour Activism and Women in the Unorganised Sector: Garment Export Industry in Bangalore”, Economic and Political Weekly, (2005) vol.XL, Nos 22 and 23, May-June. 

• “Old Classes and New Spaces: Urban Poverty, Unorganized Labour and New Unions” Economic and Political Weekly, vol.38, no.50, Dec 13-19,2003.

• “Powerlooms in Silk Weaving: Case Studies from Karnataka” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2000.

• “Neo Statism in Third World Studies”,  Third World Quarterly, 1999.

Recent Unpublished Reports

• “Indian State and Globalization”, background paper written for project on Indian State and Globalization, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the National Foundation of India, New Delhi 2005.

1. “Has IT Made  a Difference”  paper at Conference on Women, Education and Employment, Institute of Developing Societies, Kolkata, August 2008.

2. “Informality and the Limits of Activism” paper at Confernce on  “Globalization, Labour and the World of Work”, St Anthony’s College, Oxford, U.K., October 29-30,2006.

3. Rights, Informal Work and Activism: Women in Export Zones”, paper at Conference on Rights, Resistance and Protest: Iondia in the Age of Reforms”, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi February 1-3,2007.

4. “Urban Activism: the Framework of Possibilities”,  paper at Conference on “Tackling Exclusion: Shelter, Basic Services and Citizen’s Rights in Globalizing Megacities of Asia”, (Institute of Social Studies, Hague, and Alternatives in Development, Ahmedabad), New Delhi  June 1-3,2006.

5. “Class, Critique and Activism”, paper at Conference on “Globalization: Social and Political Dynamics” at Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, November 2005.

6. “Labour and Industrial Conflict: Case Studies from Bangalore”, paper at International Conference on Labour and Globalization, Institute of Development Research, Kolkata, December 2004. 

7.  Decentralization and Globalization”, paper at National Conference on Decentralization held at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, January 2005.

Recent Research Projects

• “Local Welfare in a Global Context: Slums and Urban Welfare in Karnataka’s Development”, sponsored by the National Foundation of India as part of their project on “The Indian State and Globalization”, funded by the Ford Foundation, New Delhi.

• “Globalization and Employment: Survey of Ready Made Garment Workers  in Bangalore”, Collaborative Project with Institute of Developing Economies, (IDE)  Tokyo, as part of a broader project on South Asia on the same theme, sponsored by the IDE, Tokyo.  Commencing September 2006. 

• “ Migration, Informal Work and Welfare,: a Policy Perspective on Urban Deprivation in Karnataka’s Cities”.  Sponsored by State Planning Board, Government of karnataka, 2008

Dr. Supriya RoyChowdhury
Professor and Head
Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Dr. V K R V Rao Road, Nagarbhavi PO,
Bangalore 560 072, India
Phone: 080-23215468 (O)
E-Mail: supriya@isec.ac.in