Legal Empowerment

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

Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation

Abstract: Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation,...

Homeworkers in Thailand and Legal Rights Protections

Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors

Analyzing patterns of formal and informal property rights among sidewalk vendors in the United States.

People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chainsLaw, Democracy and Development

The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South...

Promoting Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Lessons From Five Countries

Global Wage Report 2012/13 Wages and equitable growth (Executive Summary)

The Global Wage Report 2012/13 addresses wage disparities worldwide and how these have been affected by the economic crisis. The report includes...

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