Public and Workplace Services

A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations

This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

Empowering Women in an Insecure World. Joining SEWA Makes a Difference.

Abstract: This paper examines what significance membership in SEWA has. SEWA, a trade union of self-employed poor women, uses several strategies...

PR No. 15A – Text of the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

  This document is in both English and French. Ce document est écrit en anglais et en français. For more information click here. Disponible...

The transition from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1) at 104th Session, 2015

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