Future of Work

Policy Responses to the Employment Effects of COVID-19 in the Global South: What Have We Learnt So Far?

• September 1, 2020 - September 4, 2020
• Online

September 2, 2020: 3 PM (CEST, UTC+2) The World Bank in collaboration with  UNU-WIDER , the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Network...

Beyond Insecurity: A New Approach to Work, Wages and Wealth Distribution

• August 27, 2020
• Online

7:30 am EDT (GMT -4) – 9:30 AM

Informal Economy Revisited bookcover

The Informal Economy Revisited – landmark book in open access

This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,...

Cette nouvelle crise fait ressortir les vieilles injustices dans l’économie mondiale

Les rapports sinistres sur les systèmes de santé débordés d’ici et d’autres parties de l’Europe, ainsi que de l’Amérique du Nord, ont dominé...

Esta nueva crisis acentúa las antiguas injusticias de la economía global 

La cobertura de COVID-19 por parte de muchos de los medios de comunicación más influyentes del mundo ha estado dominada por informes desalentadores...

This new crisis underscores old injustices in the global economy

Grim reports of overwhelmed health systems from here and other parts of Europe, as well as North America, have dominated COVID-19 coverage...

What’s missing from the future of work debates? Social protection for 2 billion workers

Although the world is abuzz over robots and automation in debates over the “future of work,” we know the reality is that 61 per cent of the...

Global Social Protection Week

• November 25, 2019 - November 28, 2019
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva, Switzerland

WIEGO participated in Global Social Protection Week, a high-level conference and technical discussion to chart the way towards universal...

Workers’ rights in informal economies

A growing movement is helping improve lives and livelihoods for the world’s informal workers, Sally Roever explains in this Open Democracy...