Asia & the Pacific

Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor: Progress Report

Progress report on WIEGO grant activities concerning law and the working poor in Thailand for the second half of 2012

The Material and the Symbolic: Intersectionalities of Home-Based Work in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly

Capital has an overarching logic of accumulation in general and yet the economic rationale, intercepted by national and local configurations...

Social Security for Street Vendors

Claiming Urban Space: Street Vending in Ahmedabad

Working Paper 2: Law, Rights and Regulation in the Informal EconomyESRC-DFID Research Project

Employment Vulnerability in the Urban Labour Market in India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been...

A Gendered Analysis of Decent Work Deficits in India’s Urban Informal Economy: Case Study Perspectives from Surat

From the publisher: “Through case study material from a 2004 study of urban informal employment in Surat, India, this chapter emphasises...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores

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...

Working conditions in the Indonesian leather and footwear sector

Publication’s summary: “Indonesia is the fourth largest footwear manufacturer worldwide. The major importers of Indonesian leather...