Legal Empowerment

Informal Employment, Labour Law and the Challenge of Enforcement

In order to regulate, improve and standarDize informal labor, there is a need for a strategic vision of labor regulation supported by theories,...

Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers

Report on Situation of Domestic Workers in Thailand in 2012

The Other Path of the Law

Analyzing how informal economic activity influences jurisprudence.  

Mediating from the margins: The role of intermediaries in facilitating participation in markets by poor producersSouth African Journal of Labour Relations

Abstract: This article argues that the preponderance of market intermediaries is driven by two imprimaturs. The first relates to the global...

Domestic workers and Informality: Compliance with DecentWork for Domestic Workers as a Transgression to the Asymmetrical Law of the Home Workplace*

The situation of informality addressed through invisibility and the consequent need to overcome the asymmetrical law of home-based work. ...

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

Report on Contract Farming in Thailand

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

Poverty, Legal Empowerment and Informal Business in South Africa