History, Debate and Theory

International Handbook of Gender and Poverty

Conceptualizing Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privitization: Three Challenges to Labor Rights in Our Time

Rethinking the Informal Economy: From Enterprise Characteristics to Employment Relations

The Spatial Reproduction of Urban PovertyEconomic & Political Weekly

This article highlights, from the vantage point of workers in the resettlement colony, how the restructuring processes of large formal sector...

Special Issue on Labor Law Reforms in India

The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases),...

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

(Re)conceptualizing poverty and informal employment

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Fair and Ethical Trade: An Explanation

This resource is a technical guide, commissioned by WIEGO. A single, technical and universally accepted definition of Fair Trade has been...

Waste pickers in Colombia

In “Order 275, dating from 2011,” a lead waste picker interviews two high-level officials, who explain the content of the constitutional...