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  • Street vendors in Accra. (Photo: J. Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage Law & Informality Insights

    Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries

    This Legal Brief compares the Civil Law and Common Law systems to explore the recourses and remedies street vendors may have to to defend...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers

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  • Project Reports

    Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor: Progress Report

    Progress report on WIEGO grant activities concerning law and the working poor in Thailand for the second half of 2012

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  • Journal Articles

    Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons

    This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries....

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  • Journal Articles

    Medidas cautelares para trabajadores informalesLa Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle

    La Revista Académica de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad La Salle, es un texto con rigor científico que tiene por objeto abordar...

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  • Research Reports

    Realizing Rights for Homeworkers: An Analysis of Governance Mechanisms

    Carr Centre Discussion PaperAbstract: Following the Rana Plaza factory fires four years ago, the labour rights violations in global supply...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Representing the part-time and contingent workforce: Challenges for unions and public policy

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  • Journal Articles

    Human Rights for Precarious Workers: The Legislative Precariousness of Domestic Labor

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  • Journal Articles

    Informality, Illegality, and Inequality

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  • Journal Articles

    ¿Qué derechos laborales tienen los trabajadores informales del servicio de limpia en la ciudad de México?: el caso de los trabajadores voluntarios y pepenadoresMétodhos

    El presente artículo tiene por objetivo demostrar que el servicio de limpia es un servicio público cuya realización corresponde al Gobierno...

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