Theme: Livelihoods

Pesticide Vendors in the Informal Sector: Trading Health for Income

Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty);...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Towards an ILO Convention

Producing Privatization: Re-articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space

Reducing the health inequalities associated with employment conditions

“Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

Abstract:

Durban Workers Unite to Defend Street Traders’ Livelihoods’

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Promoting Occupational Safety and Health for Cambodian Entertainment Sector Workers

Abstract: Cambodia has developed booming textile, garment, tourism, and entertainment service industries since the mid-1990s. The 2007 global...

SEWU and Sikhula Tips on Organising Informal Workers

Rescaling the State, Restructuring Social Relations