1. CV
Surendra Pratap
S/O Sri O.N. Upadhyay
305 B, Block-N, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi
Mobile: +919711381113
E-mail: spsurendrapratap@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 2 December 1965
Educational Qualification
MA Economics, 2000, Ist division, BR Ambedkar University, Agra
MSc Environmental Sciences, 1987, Ist Division, GB Pant University of Agriculture &
Technology, Pantnagar, Nainital
BSc, 1984, Ist division, Kumaon University, Nainital
LLB, 1995, IInd division, Lucknow University, Lucknow
Language proficiency
Hindi and English
Technical Skills
Working knowledge of computer applications
Experiences and Specialties
Grassroots social Activist
Worked as Fulltime activist, grass-root organizer with working class organizations for more than 10
years (1988-1999)
Journalist
Worked as Sub Editor in a national Hindi daily DAINK JAGARAN in Meerut Uttar Pradesh for
more than four years (2004-08)
Labour Researcher
Currently working as Director, Centre for
Workers Education, New Delhi
 Main focus on Workers’ Education and
Research
Research Partner of Asia Monitor Resource
Centre (AMRC) in its various programs 2011-
onwards (Intern, Asia Monitor Resource Centre
(AMRC), Hong Kong 2010-11)
 Responsibility of coordinating South
Asian labour groups associated with two
Asian labour networks-ATNC
Monitoring Network and Asian Round
Table on Social Security (AROSS)
 Coordinated South Asian labour groups
in AMRC research on trade unions,
capital mobility, informal sector, and
social security
 Coordinated South Asian groups for
their participation and presentations in
Asia level conferences of ATNC
monitoring network, AROSS and
informal sector organizing
 Coordinated with Indian labour groups
in organizing the India Workshop on
organizing strategies for informal sector
workers

2.  Coordinated with South Asian groups in
organizing the south Asia workshop on
organizing strategies for informal sector
workers
 Led the team including two other
members of AMRC in conducting the
research on Social security in Asia
Research Projects of AMRC independently
undertaken by me:
 Special economic zones in India
 Special economic zone in China
 Collective bargaining in India
 Trade Union repression in India
 Bangladesh Garment workers strike
 Social security in India
 Social security in Asia
 Electronics industry in India
 Informal sector in India
 Corporate Social Responsibility
 International capital mobility and Asian
labour movement
 Mapping the labour movement in India
Research Consultant, Building and Wood
Workers international (BWI) 2011-12
Prepared a brief overview of recent trends in
Construction Industry
Research Consultant, Society for Rural
Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI), 2010
 Coordinated the workers organizations
associated with SRUTI in four states
including Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and
Uttarakhand, for conducting a research
on Role of National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme
towards empowerment of rural
workers with particular reference to
women workers
 Organized a training program for them
on NREGA
 Produced a research report
Research Consultant, National Confederation of
Dalit Organizations, 2010
 Coordinated with various Dalit
organizations and intellectuals to
organize a national consultation on
Privatization and Social Exclusion of
Dalits
 Prepared a report on Social Exclusion
of Dalits in Private Business
Researcher in a Project on value chain in Study on workers in value chain of Auto

3. Auto industry, with Prof AJC Bose, Delhi
University, Delhi, 2002-03
industry
Senior Researcher, Center for Education and
Communication (CEC), 2003-04, and 2008-09
 Coordinated the Project on Special
Economic Zones, with all responsibilities
of looking after the budget, activities and
planning the project cycle
 Coordinated with various trade unions
and other organizations working on
labour rights and Organized a National
consultation on labour rights in special
economic zones in Hyderabad
 Coordinated the fact finding team
formed on Lakhani shoes Fire accident
in Faridabad, the team included central
trade union leaders and activists from
other organizations in the area
 Coordinated the fact finding on
Graziano workers struggle in Noida, the
team included local trade union activists
including from local HMS unit which
was leading the struggle
 Coordinated with trade union activists
and other workers organizations during
Rico auto and sunbeam auto workers
struggle in Gurgaon
Conducted studies and produced reports on
 Child labour in Beedi Industry in
Madhya Pradesh
 Impact of earthquake on Salt-pan
workers and Charcoal workers in
Gujarat
 Special Economic Zones in India with
case studies on Brandix SEZ (garment)
Vishakhapattanam and Apache SEZ
(shoe), Nellore, in Andhra Pradesh
 Investigative report on fire accident in
Lakhani shoe factory in Faridabad
 Investigative report on Graziano (auto
parts) workers struggle
 Investigative reports on Rico and
Subeam (both autoparts) workers
struggle
Senior Research Associate, VV Giri National
Labour Institute, Noida, 1999-2002
Multi-state Project: Organizing the Unorganized,
An action research for Organizing the agriculture
workers.

4. I was co-coordinator of the project for state of
Madhya Pradesh and intervention district was
Tikamgarh
Verification Auditor on Labour Standards
 Member of Fair Wear Foundation Audit Team in India
Contributions in National-International Conferences and Workshops
 Presentation on Challenges before the
Laboru Movement in India
Biennial Conference Asian TNC Monitoring
Network, Bangkok, Thailand, 22-24 Oct 2015
 Presentation on the Labour and the
Social Security Challenge in South Asia
Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP)
South Asian Partners’ Meeting 18th – 19th
December 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Presentation on the political Economy of
Unorganized
Two day national consultation of all trade unions
and other workers organizations affiliated with
National Centre for Labour (NCL) Organized in
Bangalore, 4-4 August 2014
 Presented paper on Workers in the
Supply Chain of Electronics Industry in
India-The Case of Samsung
Biennial Conference of ATNC Monitoring
Network held in Bogor, Indonesia on 9-11
November 2013
 Presented a paper on Social security: A
struggle for workers in the age of
globalisation
4th
Asian Roundtable on Social Security
(AROSS), organized at School of Labor and
Industrial Relations (SOLAIR), University of the
Philippines (UP) Diliman, Quezon City,
Philippines, October 21-22, 2013
 Chaired a session and presented a study
report on Informal sector in India and
Challenges for its transformation
A workshop on organizing the informal sector
workers, organized by AMRC in Bangkok, 2012
 Presented paper on Shrinking space for
Collective bargaining in India
Workshop on Changing Labour Regulations in
China: Practice and Challenges, Hongkong in
City University of Hong Kong in 2011
 Presented paper on Challenges before
Asian labour movement
Annual Conference of ATNC Monitoring
Network, held in Taiwan 2011
 Presented Keynote Address on Social
security, towards achieving Asian minima
Third International Conference of Asian Round
Table on Social Security (AROSS) held in Chiang
Mai University Thailand in 2011
 Presented paper on Trade Unionism in
India
Annual Conference of ATNC Monitoring
Network, held in Manila, Philippines in
September 2010
 Presented paper on Social Security in
India
Second International Conference of Asian
Round Table on Social Security (AROSS) held in
School of Labor Economics ,
Capital University of Economics and
Business, Beijing, Nov 19-20, 2010
 Presented paper on Child Labour in Bidi
Industry in Madhya Pradesh
National conference on Child labour held in
India Habitate Centre, New Delhi, 2004
 Chaired a session in a workshop on
informal sector
A workshop on informal sector organizing,
organized by AMRC in Bangkok, 2012

5.  Participated in AMRC regional Council
meeting
AMRC regional Council meeting, Hong Kong,
2011
Resource Person in Training Programs for Labour activists and Trade Unions
 Conducted Training Programs on Organizing the Unorganized, and on Social Security for
grass root activists associated with CWE Partner organizations in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh
and Uttar Pradesh in 2015
 Developed a training module on organizing the unorganized, and organized a training
programs in Dashpalla, Odisha for activists associated with Odisha Shramjeevi Sangh (27-29
September 2014)
 Resource person in a training program on occupational health and safety organized by
AMRC in Kolkata for trade unions working in engineering sector and associated with New
Workers Initiative, Kolkata (5-6 September 2014)
 Organized a training program on Organizing the unorganized in Delhi for activists
associated with various grass root workers organizations including Baghelkhand Adivasi
Kisan Mazdoor Mukti Morcha, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, Asangathit Mazdoor Adhikar
Morcha, Baereilly, UP and Odisha Shramjeevi Union, Dhenkanal, Odisha (14-15 July 2014)
 Presentation on Cooperatives as an inbuilt element in the organizing strategies for workers,
in a meeting of activists organized by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation at its South Asia office in
New Delhi 2012
 Presentation on Alternative livelihoods for beedi workers–missed opportunities; in a
Workshop organized by Voluntary Health Association of India in Delhi, 2012
 Resource person in a training program of Garment Trade Union activists in Dhaka,
Bangladesh organized by AMRC (14-15 October 2011)
 Training consultant (1998-2002) for training programs of VV Giri National Labour Institute
for trade unions and NGO working in informal sector
 Prepared Study Material on Technology & Labour for IGNOU course program on Political
Economy of Labour, 2000.
Member of Networks
ATNC Monitoring Network
Asian Round Table on Social Security (AROSS)
Publications
Authored Book
Surendra Pratap (2014). Emerging Trends in Factory Asia: International Capital Mobility, Global
Value Chains and the Labour Movements; Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong 2014
Papers in Books
1. Surendra Pratap (2014). The Challenges Before the Labour Movement in India (translated
in French language) and published in the book on States of Resistances (État des
résistances), CETRI – Le Centre tricontinental, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique;

6. http://www.cetri.be/ December 2014)
2. Surendra Pratap (2014). Workers in the Supply Chain of Electronics Industry in India, in
the book, Labour Rights in High-tech Electronics, AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012
3. Surendra Pratap (2013). Social Security: A struggle of survival for workers in the age of
globalization; in the book, Sharpening Labour’s Role in Advancing Social Protection for All
in Asia, published by AMRC, Hong Kong 2013
4. Apo Leong and Surendra Pratap (2012). China’s Capitalist Development and Implications
for Labour, with Special Reference to Shenzhen SEZ, in the Book, We in the Zone,
published by AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012
5. Surendra Pratap (2012). Resistance Movements Against SEZs (India), in the Book, We in
the Zone, published by AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012
6. Surendra Pratap (2012). The Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Agenda of the
Corporate, in the Book, The Reality of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case Studies on
Impact of CSR on Workers in China, South Korea, India and Indonesia, published by
AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012
7. Surendra Pratap, Sanjiv Pandita and Fahmi Panimbang (2012). Liberalization of
Economy and Politics of CSR in India, in the Book, The Reality of Corporate Social
Responsibility: The Case Studies on Impact of CSR on Workers in China, South Korea,
India and Indonesia, published by AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012
8. Surendra Pratap (2011). Towards a Regional Social Security Minima, Keynote Address in
Third International Conference of Asian Round Table on Social Security 2011 held in
Thailand, Published in Conference Proceedings by Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai
University
9. Navin Chandra and Surendra Pratap (2000). Organizing Informal Sector Workers (with N.
Chandra), In "Informal Sector in India" Ed. Dr. AN Sharma & Dr. Amitabh Kundu,
Institute of Human Development, 2000.
10. Surendra Pratap (2000).Technology & Labour, in Political Economy of Labour (Course
Program Study Material) IGNOU 2000.
Papers in Journals
1. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “The Informality and Precarious Work
in Production Chain Capitalism: A Case Study of Automobile Industry in India”, Asian
Labour Review, Vol 1, Issue 1, 2016 (Forthcoming)
2. Timothy Kerswell and Surendra Pratap (2015), “Informality in Automobile Value Chains in
India”, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society · 1089-7011 · Volume 18 ·
December 2015 · pp. 533–553
3. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “A PICTURE OF TRADE UNIONS
IN INDIA”, Indian Streams Research Journal, Volume - 5 | Issue - 8 | Sept - 2015
4. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Labour and Livelihoods under New
International Division of Labour: The Case of Asia”, LABOUR & DEVELOPMENT, Vol.
22, No. 1, June 2015
5. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Deciphering the Anti-Labour Nature
of Neocon Globalism”, Modern Research Studies, Volume 2: Issue 4 (December 2015)
6. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “DEVELOPMENT AS POLITICS : A
STUDY OF EMERGING WORKERS’ MOVEMENTS IN INDIA”, Journal of Economic
& Social Development, Vol. - XI, No. 1, June 2015
7. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Global Factories: Concepts, Structures
and Consequences”, Management Today, Vol.5, No.4, October-December 2015

7. 8. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Labour Management Today without
Right to Organize and Collectively Bargain”, Management Today, Vol.5, No.3, October-
December 2015
9. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Struggle for a Dignified Life: The
Case of Paharpur Workers”, Social Action (ISSN: 0037-7627), July–Sept 2015, Vol. 65 No. 3
10. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Working People in Indian Economy: A
Structural Analysis”,International Journal of Social and Economic Research (Online ISSN: 2249-6270), Vol.5,
Issue 2, July.
11. Tom Barnes, Krishna Shekhar Lal Das & Surendra Pratap (2013). Labour Contractors and
Global Production Networks: The Case of India’s Auto Supply Chain; The Journal of
Development Studies; Volume 51, Issue 4, 2015
12. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Issues of Labour Unrest in Asia: A
Comparative Study of Hot Spots and Flash Points”, Journal of Indian Research (ISSN:
2321-4155), Vol.3, No.1, January-March.
13. Surendra Pratap and Annavajhula J.C. Bose (2015), “Financialization, International Capital
Mobility and Primitive Accumulation: Triple Monsters Eating Up
Livelihoods”,International Journal of Development Research (ISSN: 2230-9926), Vol.5,
No.5, May.
14. Surendra Pratap and A.J.C. Bose (2015), “Transforming the Working and Living
Conditions of Workers in India”, Indian Labour Journal (ISSN: 0019-5723), Vol. 56, No.4,
April.
15. Annavajhula J C B and Surendra Pratap (2012). Worker Voices in an Auto Production Chain:
Notes from the Pits of a Low Road –I, Special Article, Economic & Political Weekly,
August 18, 2012 vol xlviI no 33
16. Annavajhula J C B and Surendra Pratap (2012). Worker Voices in an Auto Production Chain:
Notes from the Pits of a Low Road –II, Special Article, Economic & Political Weekly,
August 25, 2012 vol xlvii no 34
17. Surendra Pratap (2011). Bangladesh Garment Industry in Turmoil: Workers No More
Willing to Perish in the Profit Machine; Published in Korean language in International
Policy Briefs, Korean Labour Institute, Korea, January 2011
18. Surendra Pratap (2011). Challenges of Organizing the BPO Workers in India, Asian
Labour Update, AMRC Hong Kong 2011
19. Surendra Pratap (2011). Collective Bargaining in India- Recent Trends, Presented in an
International workshop on Changing Labour Regulations in China: Practice and Challenges,
Organized by City University Hong Kong, Jan 5-7, 2011, Published in Asian Labour
Update, April-June 2011, AMRC, Hong Kong.
20. Surendra Pratap (2008). SEZs: The New War Zones of the Working Class; Labour File,
New Delhi, July-Oct 2008
21. Navin Chandra and Surendra Pratap (2000). Spatial configurations of Industrial relation in
India, Conference Issue, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2000
Papers at Websites
1. Michael Walker and Surendra Pratap (2015): Hyperbolic discounting in occupational safety
and health in South Asia; Plenary Paper to be presented in 17th World Congress of ILERA

8. (ILO) in Cape Town, South Africa, 7-11 September 2015 (Forthcoming)
2. Surendra Pratap (2015). Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India Part I, II &III;
http://sanhati.com/
3. Surendra Pratap, Sally Choi and Wulan Dari (2012). Realizing Social Protection and Decent
Work for All in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities, Research Paper, Global Network 2012,
Washington, http://www.solidar.org
4. Surendra Pratap (2012). Workers in the Supply Chain of Electronics Industry in India-The
Case of Samsung, Report, AMRC, Hong Kong, 2012, www.amrc.org.hk
5. Surendra Pratap (2012). Informal Sector in India, Challenges for its transformation, Report,
Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi; 2012,
http://workerscentre.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/informal-sector-in-india-and-
challenges-for-its-transformation.pdf
6. Surendra Pratap (2012). Corporate led Globalization aggravating the problems of
occupational Health and Safety ; Working Paper, Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi,
2012; http://workerscentre.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/corporate-led-globalization-
aggravating-the-problems-of-occupational-health-and-safety.pdf
7. Surendra Pratap (2011). Resurgence of the working class movement: Hopes and challenges
reflected in the recent struggles; Working Paper, Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi,
2011; http://workerscentre.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/resurgence-of-the-working-class-
movement-hopes-and-challenges-reflected-in-the-recent-struggles.pdf
8. Surendra Pratap (2011). Aggravating Problems of Social Exclusion and Challenges before
the labour Movement ; Working Paper, Centre for Workers Education, New Delhi, 2011;
http://workerscentre.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/aggravating-problems-of-social-
exclusion-and-challenges-before-the-labour-movement.pdf
9. Surendra Pratap (2010). Trade Union Repression in India, Working Paper, AMRC Hong
Kong, 2010. Presented in Annual Conference of ATNC Monitoring Network, held in
Philippines in September 2010, www.amrc.org.hk
10. Surendra Pratap (2008). SEZ Rush In India: Challenges and Opportunities Before Labour;
Working Paper, CEC 2008; cec-india.org
11. Surendra Pratap (2002). Child Labour in Bidi Industry, A case study of Bidi Industry in
Tikamgarh, MP, Working Paper, CEC 2002; cec-india.org
12. Surendra Pratap (2002). Impact of Earthquake on Vulnerable Sections of workers,
specifically agriculture, saltpan and charcoal workers in Gujarat, Working Paper, CEC, New
Delhi 2002; cec-india.org
Surendra Pratap
Jan 2016