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  • Journal Articles

    Domestic Work, Unpaid Work and Wage Rates

    A comprehensive law for domestic workers in India covering all aspects of their working conditions is yet to come. However, the debate on...

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  • Journal Articles

    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.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Social regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The international, regional and national interplay of labour alternative dispute resolution mechanisms

    Abstract: The Southern African Development Community region (SADC) has seen a trend toward applying Alternative Dispute Settlement (ADR)...

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  • Technical Briefs

    Using Administrative Law to Secure Informal Livelihoods: Lessons from South Africa

    Although informal workers make up the broad base of the work force in many countries, legal frameworks often fail to protect and support...

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    Using the Right to Information in the Informal Economy: A How-To Guide

    This practical guide outlines how the right to information, a right that is broadly recognized in international law and in most countries...

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  • Journal Articles

    Legal Recognition of Street VendorsYOJANA

    This article gives a brief explanation of the Bill for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in the Lok Sabha. This...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

    Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal business and poverty in South Africa: Rethinking the paradigmLaw, Democracy and Development

    Analysing policy discourse concerning the informal economy in South Africa, the article explicates in detail the paucity of (even ostensibly...

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  • Research Reports

    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,...

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  • Legal Instruments

    Policy: Policy for the Informal Economy of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)

    Policy recommending development of and support for the province’s informal sectors

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