Public and Workplace Services

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

Occupational and Environmental Health Risks Associated with Informal Sector Activities—Selected Case Studies from West Africa

Abstract: Most in the Economic Community of West African States region are employed in the informal sector. While the informal sector plays...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries

The Dilemma of the Informal Sector, Report of the Director-General

International Labour Conference, 78th Session, Geneva

The Exceptional Persistence of India’s Unorganized Sector

This paper documents several key facts about India’s unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions...

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

Hierarchies of Care Work in South Africa: Nurses, Social Workers and Home-based Care Workers

Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions

Bad Dreams: Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms