Legal Empowerment

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...

Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia

This book brings together a set of studies on labour conditions in global value chains (GVCs) in a variety of sectors, ranging from labour-intensive...

A Report on Kayayei in Ghana

Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Amparo Proceedings

Discusses the use of constitutional litigation (amparo proceedings) to protect human rights in Latin American countries