All posts in Legal Empowerment
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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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