Asia & the Pacific

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha’s experiences in central India

Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents estimates of home-based workers in Bangladesh based on two rounds of labour force surveys (nationally representative...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Trabalhadores Domiciliares em Lahore, Paquistão

City Report (English)

The struggle for outwork reform in the Australian clothing industryJournal of Australian Political Economy

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Waged Work at Home: The Social Organization of Industrial Outwork in Hong Kong

Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

Earning their keep and keeping what they earn: A critique of organizing strategies for South Asian women in the informal sector

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