Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

Problems with Temporary and Subcontracted Work in California

The nature of employment is changing. Employees are increasingly seen as liabilities rather than assets, and so workers are kept at arm’s...

Measuring Informality

China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected...

The Urban Informal Sector in Central America: Household Survey Evidence

Urban Informal Workers: Representative Voice & Economic Rights

Background Paper for 2013 World Development Report on Jobs    

Industrial Relations in a Global Production Network

The tripartite structure of representatives of employers, workers and the government in the global production network lacks a key player,...

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...

Regulating Labor Relations in Global Production Networks: Insights on International Framework Agreements

Abstract: Unions are developing a strategy to bring to bear on the transnational regulation gap with regard to labor relations. One important...

‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production NetworksBrooks World Poverty Institute Working Papers

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The Informal Workforce and Public Policy

WIEGO translated this article into English (with permission) from the original, published in Trabajo Informal, Este Pais, in July 2013.  ...