Poverty / Inequality

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. ...

Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...

Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households

Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India

Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...

Supporting Informal Livelihoods in Public Space: A Toolkit for Local Authorities

This toolkit is designed to assist city officials and other local authorities to adopt an inclusive approach to managing public space that...

“God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Remuneration of Home-based Workers

Summary: Home-based work, defined as non-professionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment...

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

Informal Employment in the Global South: Globalization, Production Relations and “Precarity”

This book presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political, and...

Low-waged and Informal Employment in South Africa