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Journal ArticlesInformal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational HygieneObjectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics... Read More Journal ArticlesHealth and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food SellersWIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne... Read More Journal ArticlesPrivatizing Collective Public Goods – Re-fracturing the Public and Re-Segmenting Labour Markets. A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa Read More Journal ArticlesWomen Workers in the New Economy Read More Journal ArticlesA Competitive Model of the Informal SectorJournal of Monetary EconomicsAbstract: Read More Journal ArticlesWomen’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development ReviewThe increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility... Read More Journal ArticlesGlobal Trade and Homework: Closing the DivideGender and DevelopmentHome work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions... Read More Journal ArticlesContribution of cooperative sector recycling to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A case study of Ribeirão Pires, BrazilWaste ManagementAbstract: Solid waste, including municipal waste and its management, is a major challenge for most cities and among the key contributors... Read More Journal ArticlesThe Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers. Resource is subscription only. Read More Journal ArticlesWeapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum CommunitiesSojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast AsiaAbstract: This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced... Read More First Prev ... 2 3 4 ... 13 ... Next Last
Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational HygieneObjectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics... Read More
Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food SellersWIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne... Read More
Privatizing Collective Public Goods – Re-fracturing the Public and Re-Segmenting Labour Markets. A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa Read More
Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development ReviewThe increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility... Read More
Global Trade and Homework: Closing the DivideGender and DevelopmentHome work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions... Read More
Contribution of cooperative sector recycling to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A case study of Ribeirão Pires, BrazilWaste ManagementAbstract: Solid waste, including municipal waste and its management, is a major challenge for most cities and among the key contributors... Read More
The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers. Resource is subscription only. Read More
Weapons of the Urban Weak: Democracy and Resistance to Eviction in Bangkok Slum CommunitiesSojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast AsiaAbstract: This paper takes a careful look at resistance to eviction in Bangkok slum communities. When an unstable parliamentary regime replaced... Read More
