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Journal Articles

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

Journal Articles

Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South AsiaWorld Development

Homework can be seen as the source of exploitation of workers, but under some conditions, it can foster human development and the emergence...

Research Reports

The Role of Employment in Promoting the Millennium Development Goals

Issues in Employment Discussion Paper, No. 18Joint ILO-UNDP programme on ‘Promoting Employment for Poverty Reduction’

Research Reports

Informal Sector Versus Informal Contracts in Nairobi, Kenya

Abstract: From official records, it would appear that the labour market significantly shifted from the formal to the informal sector in Kenya....

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Outworkers and Precarity: The Case of Victorian Clothing WorkersJust Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy

Abstract: Clothing outworkers are some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the Australian labour market. If trade unions are...

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Monitoring Donor and IFI Support Behind Country-owned Poverty Reduction Strategies in Ghana

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Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

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Empleo, salarios y equidad durante la recuperación reciente en la Argentina

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New Initiatives in Organizing Strategy in the Informal Economy

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Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade

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