The overall research project, which aimed at analyzing labour regimes and labour standards in the garment and construction industries in India and China, was carried out through institutional collaboration between the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Peking University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. The research project team consisted of Dr. Jens Lerche (Principal Investigator), Terry McKinley, Alessandra Mezzadri, Dae-oup Chang (Coinvestigators, SOAS, UK), Pun Ngai (Co-Investigator, Hong Kong, China), Ravi Srivastava (CoInvestigator, India) as well as Henry Bernstein (SOAS) and Liu Aiyu and Lu Huilin (Beijing, China).

The study of the construction industry in India was coordinated and carried out by Ravi Srivastava (JNU). The overall study design was jointly prepared by colleagues in the China team, Dr. Jens Lerche, and the India team involved with the study. The research team directly involved with the India study comprised (besides Ravi Srivastava) Simantini Mohapotra, Rohit Sharma and Ajit Jha. Ajit Jha is also the co-author of this report. The study received extensive feedback from participants in various workshops, including those held in Beijing, London, and Delhi. I am grateful to participants of these workshops for providing their feedback. The draft report was reviewed and edited by Dr. Jens Lerche, the Principal Investigator of the overall study, who also provided comments and suggestions at various stages of the study.