Theme: Legal Empowerment

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 Decent Work 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. ...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

Varieties of Legal Dualism: Making Sense of the Role of Law in Contemporary Russia

Explores dual (formal/informal) systems of political use of the courts and informal social/business networks in Russia.

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...

Law: Domestic Work Employees – Labor Standards (California)

Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of California

Report from 2011 Consultation with Street Vendors in Ghana

Bibliography on Street Vending and the Law

Academic resources on street vending and the law, with links.

Resolución de Superintendencia No 191-2005/SUNAT: Establecen registro de empleadores de trabajadores del hogar, trabajadores del hogar y sus derecho habientes