This book would not have been possible without the support and much more of not only the contributors, but many other individuals, institutions, and organisations who worked together for the 2018 conference at Stockholm that gave rise to the idea of the book, and then helped develop that idea up to the stage of final publication in 2021. We would like to thank Jane Barrett and Nina Trige Andersen for all their partnership and work put in before, during and after the conference, as well as their contribution towards making the book relevant and up to date. We also thank Union to Union, abf, and if Metall in Sweden for the interest and support they gave to the conference that enabled the coming together of activists and academics that has made this book what it is.
The Labour movements archive and library (arab) in Stockholm, Centre for Women’s Development Studies in Delhi (cwds), and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (wiego), three different types of institutions made for a memorable collaboration both for the conference and the cross continental thinking together that has gone into this book. Institutional collaboration between arab and cwds, and cooperation from the Economic History department at Lund University, allowed for meetings among editors in Stockholm, New Delhi, and Lund that facilitated collective thinking and editorial solidarity that is so much a part of this book. Grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond made it possible to arrange the conference on home-based work in Stockholm in May 2018; Lund university book fund helped us publish the book open access, the Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse has given Malin some time to work.
We would like to thank Janhavi Dave, Chris Bonner, and Jane for their willing promptness in contributing a post-script even as the pandemic raged and posed new challenges. To Indira Chandrasekhar of Tulika, we express our appreciation for great copyediting. To Jonas Söderqvist for his excellent job with the index of this book. We would like to thank Barbro Budin for helping us to get in contact with so many of those who have been valuable to this process. We would also like to thank the people at Brill who have helped us to get this book on the road. Thank you Alessandra Giliberto for kindly answering all our questions; thank you to the anonomous reviewer for useful comments. We would also like to thank Marcel van der Linden for encouraging this book project from the start.
At last, we are so happy that HomeNet international let us be part of their first congress. Your fight along with many others has been a main source for motivation and inspiration for this book. With love and solidarity, thank you.
Lund, New Delhi and Stockholm in June 2021Malin Nilsson, Indrani Mazumdar and Silke Neunsinger