History, Debate and Theory

The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly...

Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour

This essay foregrounds the phenomenon of informalised self-employment and explores its implications for potentially new forms of labour activism....

Beyond Formality and Informality

Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economyLondon School of Economics and Political Science

This paper uses the case of Uganda’s capital Kampala to explore how political configurations overturn structures of city governance, with...

Informality and Social Protection: Theory and Realities

Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work

Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...

The Idea of Work

Good Practices in Safety, Health, and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia and Thailand

Informal Employment in the Transition Economy of Poland: The Case for Policies Leading to Legalization

Earnings Structures, Informal Employment, and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa