Radhicka Kapoor has contributed extensively to research on areas including poverty and inequality, labour economics and industrial performance. Over the last five years, she has worked extensively on the various facets of India’s labour market, in particular, in the areas of the informal sector, the impact of technological changes on the world of work and the measurement of employment and unemployment. An alumnus of London School of Economics, where she obtained her PhD, Radhicka’s focus has remained on a just, dignified and secure future of work – something which inspired her to direct her research on these areas. Moving away from the existing literature that focuses on the use of contract labour under rigid employment protection legislation, she has alternatively focused on contract labour’s strategic advantages to the organised sector.