Workers’ Health and Safety

Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...

Health Risks and Informal Employment in South Africa: Does Formality Protect Health?International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

The association between work and health has not been well explored in the context of economically developing countries, largely due to inadequate...

The Place of Informal Workers and the Informal Economy in Approaches to Social Protection

Increasing numbers of workers across the world experience eroding work related to social protection and those who ‘do’ social policy see...

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

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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Developing an Action-based Health and Safety Training Project in Southern China

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Assessing Access by Informal Workers

In 2003 the Ghanaian government introduced, a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) – an, innovative and large scale attempt to extend,...

Trabajadores en empleo informal: acceso a servicios de salud y posible acceso a la seguridad social

Este estudio cualitativo que reúne los hallazgos de una investigación sobre el acceso a servicios de salud y posible acceso a seguridad social...

Violence and Informal Work – Briefing Note

this briefing note highlights the causes and impact of violence  that  informal  workers  experience  in  trying  to  secure  their  livelihoods....

Borderline Slavery: Child Trafficking in Togo