Livelihoods

Representações do trabalho informal e dos riscos à saúde entre trabalhadoras domésticas e trabalhadores da construção civil

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Informal Employment and Challenges for Labour Law

From the book, The Idea of Labour Law. The book articulates a new way of conceptualizing labor law and its future by some of the world’s...

Unleashing the Economic Potential of Agglomeration in African Cities

This paper is part of the Global Urban Economic Dialogue Series of UN-Habitat. UN-Habitat describes the paper as follows: “Rapid urbanisation...

The Other Path of the Law

Analyzing how informal economic activity influences jurisprudence.  

Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly

Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links...

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Slim pickin’s: Supporting waste pickers in the ecological modernization of urban waste management systems

Abstract: Informal sector scavengers or waste pickers have been unrecognized stakeholders on the fringes of the urban waste landscape since...

South Africa’s Waste Pickers Creating Jobs and Fighting Poverty

Catadores nas políticas públicas

Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade

The ‘right to the city’: Institutional imperatives of a development state