India presents a rich context for research on work and employment, epitomising the paradox of an ‘emerging economy’ but one where 92.4% of the workforce is informal – insecure, unprotected, poor – and women and disadvantaged groups most vulnerable. It displays a wide range of production relations in its formal/informal economy, embedded in diverse social relations, and the related forms of exploitation and resistance. This WES Themed Collection aims to review existing WES scholarship on India since 2001, identifying both gaps in scholarship and fruitful avenues for future research on India. The purpose is to showcase some of this scholarship while also advancing the internationalisation and expansion of the journal’s presence in countries in the Global South. This effort is timely as decolonisation of scholarship and increased focus on the South is on the intellectual agenda, challenging established structures of power and knowledge in academia.

印度为工作和就业研究提供了丰富的背景，体现了“新兴经济体”的悖论，但其中 92.4% 的劳动力是非正规的——不安全、没有保护、贫穷——而妇女和弱势群体最容易受到伤害。它在其正规/非正规经济中表现出广泛的生产关系，嵌入在多样化的社会关系中，以及相关的剥削和抵抗形式。这个 WES 主题合集旨在回顾自 2001 年以来关于印度的现有 WES 奖学金，确定奖学金方面的差距和未来印度研究的富有成果的途径。目的是展示其中的一些学术成果，同时促进该期刊在全球南方国家的国际化和扩展。