Legal Empowerment

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

Regulatory Innovation in The Governance of Decent Work for Domestic Workers in South Africa: Access to Justice and the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration

LLDRL Working Paper Series #7

Progrès des Femmes à Travers le Monde 2005, Le: Les Femmes le Travail et la Pauvreté

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Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...