Legal Empowerment

Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...

IDRC Final Report: Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor

Summary of three-country study of law and the working poor, funded by IDRC (November 2011-March 2013)

The Diffusion of Rights: From Law on the Books to Organizational Rights Practices

Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons

This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries....

Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa

Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...

Report on Domestic Workers in Ghana

Overview of the domestic worker sector in Ghana

The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011

Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.  Resource is subscription only.

Informality, Illegality, and Inequality

People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and Development

The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South...