Professor Agarwala is the author of the award winning book, Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013). She is the author of numerous articles and volumes on class, gender and the state in India. She has also been engaged in multiple collaborative research projects on labor and social movements.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, she worked on international development and gender issues at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, and Women’s World Banking (WWB) in New York.

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