Edited volumes

Alfers, L., M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds). 2022. Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Chen, M. and F. Carré (eds). 2020. The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Routledge: London.

Book chapters

Alfers, L. 2020. “Social Protection and Informal Workers: Rethinking the Terms of Inclusion”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Alfers, L. 2022. “Informal Workers Co-Producing Social Services in the Global South: Shifting of Responsibility or Political Strategy Towards a New Social Contract?” in K. Hujo and M. Carter (eds), Between Front Lines and Fault Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. London: Bloomsbury.

Alfers, L. and R. Moussié. 2022. “Towards a More Inclusive Social Protection: Informal Workers and the Struggle for a New Social Contract”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Carré, F. 2020. “Informal Employment in Developed Countries: Relevance and Statistical Measurement”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Carré, F. 2022. “'Dependent Contractor’: Towards the Recognitions of a New Labor Category”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Carré, F., P. Horn and C. Bonner. 2020. “Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place”, in J. Charmes (ed), Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Cass Talbot, T. 2022. “Extended Producer Responsibility: Opportunities and Challenges for Waste Pickers”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Chen, M. 2020. “WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Chen, Martha, 2022.  “Self-Employment and Social Contracts: From the Perspective of the Informal Self-Employed”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Davy, J., A. Todd, R. Dobson, T. Quazi, P. Ndlovu, and L. Alfers. 2021. "Reflections on Experiences Working Alongside Informal Traders at Warwick Junction in Durban: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Perspective", in J. Bezerra, C. Paterson and S. Paphitis (eds), Challenging the Apartheids of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation. Johannesburg: African Sun Media.

Dias, S. 2020. “Waste and Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State in Brazil”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Dias, S. and L. Fernandez. 2020. “Formalisation from the Ground: The Case of Waste Pickers’ Cooperatives”, in J. Charmes (ed), Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Ogando, A.C. and J. Harvey. 2020. “Knowledge Co-production with and for Organisations of Informal Workers: Building Democratic Capacity for Social Change”, in J. Charmes (ed), Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Reed, S. 2022. “Essential and Disposable? Or Just Disposable?: Informal Workers During Covid-19”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Roever, S. 2020. “Street Vendors and Regulations”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Roever, S. and A.C. Ogando. 2022. “Recognition, Responsiveness and Reciprocity: What Informal Worker Leaders Expect from the State, the Private Sector and Themselves”, in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Rogan, M. 2022. “Taxation and the Informal Economy in the Global South: Strengthening the Social Contract without Reciprocity?’ in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.  

Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2022. “The South African Informal Economy”, in A. Oqubay, F. Tregenna, and I. Valodia (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rogan, M. and P Cichello. 2020. “(Re)conceptualizing Poverty and Informal Employment”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Skinner, C. and V. Watson. 2020. “The Informal Economy in Urban Africa: Challenging Planning Theory and Praxis”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Von Broembsen, M. 2020. “Regulating Corporations in Global Value Chains to Realise Labour Rights for Homeworkers”, in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.

Von Broembsen, M. 2020. “Social Inclusion and the New Urban Agenda: Street Vendors and Public Space”, in N. Davids and G. Tewari (eds), Law and the New Urban Agenda: A Comparative Perspective. London, New York: Routledge.

Von Broembsen, M. 2022. “Human Rights and Transnational Social Contracts: The Recognition and Inclusion of Homeworkers?” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.  

Von Broembsen, M. and J. Harvey. 2021. “Realizing Rights for Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains”, in M. Nilsson, I. Mazumdar and S. Neunsinger (eds), Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021), in Brill’s series Studies in Global Social History.  Leiden and Boston: Brill. 

Journal articles

Alfers, L. and R. Moussié. 2020. “The World Social Protection Report 2017-2019: An Assessment.” Development and Change. Vol.51(2).

Bhan, G., A. Surie, C. Horwood, R. Dobson, L. Alfers, A. Portela, and N. Rollins. 2020. “Informal Work and Maternal and Child Health: A Blind Spot for Public Health and Research.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Vol. 98(3).

Chen, M., 2020. “COVID-19, Cities and Urban Informal Workers: India in Comparative Perspective.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Sep 23.

Chen, M., E. Grapsa, G. Ismail, M. Rogan, M. Valdivia, L. Alfers, J. Harvey, A.C. Ogando, S. Reed and S. Roever. 2022. “COVID-19 and Informal Work: Evidence from 11 Cities.” International Labour Review. Special Issue: “COVID-19 and the World of Work”.

Dinesh, K. 2022. “Homeworkers as Employees: The Emerging Jurisprudence in India.” Global Rights Reporter. Vol 2(1).  Special Issue: “Protection of Workers in the Informal Economy”.

Moussié, R. and L. Alfers. 2022. “Pandemic, Informality and Women’s work: Redefining Social Protection Priorities at WIEGO.” Global Social Policy. Vol. 22(1).

Ogando, A.C., M. Rogan and R. Moussié. 2022. “Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Unpaid Care Work on Informal Workers’ Livelihoods.” International Labour Review. Special Issue: “COVID-19 and the World of Work”.  

Parra, F. 2020. “The Struggle of Waste Pickers in Colombia: From being Considered Trash, to being Recognised as Workers.” Anti-Trafficking Review. Vol.15.

Silva, G., T. Zolnikov, P. Ortolani, V. Crunivel, S. Dias, M. Mol. 2021. “Hepatitis B and C Prevalence in Waste Pickers: A Global Meta-analysis.” Journal of Public Health.

Skinner, C. and V. Watson. 2020. “Planning and Informal Food Traders under COVID-19: The South African Case.” Town Planning Review.

Von Broembsen, M. 2022. “Collective Bargaining for Self-employed Street Vendors.” Global Rights Reporter. Vol. 2(1). Special Issue: “Protection of Workers in the Informal Economy”.

Peer reviewed working papers

Chen, M., E. Grapsa, G. Ismail, S. Reed, M. Rogan, and M. Valdivia. 2022. Covid-19 and Informal Work: Degrees and Pathways of Impact in 11 Cities around the World. WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/45. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. 

Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2022. The COVID-19 Crisis and the South African Informal Economy: A Stalled Recovery. WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/40. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. 

Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2020. The COVID-19 Crisis and the South African Informal Economy: ‘Locked out’ of Livelihoods and Employment. NIDS-CRAM Working Paper No. 10. National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM).

Von Broembsen, M. 2022.  Supply Chain Governance: Arguments for Worker-driven Enforcement. Perspective. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.