Livelihoods

Continuing gender stereotypes or signs of change: Occupational pattern of women workers

Co-optation, Competition and Resistance: State and Street Vendors in Mexico City

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Reconfiguring Space, Mobilizing Livelihood: Street Vending, Legality, and Work in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the liberalization of the country’s economy has meant increasing rural to urban migration and dramatic growth in informal...

Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe

Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Sector and the business...

Business Strategies of Informal Micro-entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru

The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation, 2011

Review of the development and early stages of adoption of the ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.  Resource is subscription only.

Promote industrial relations in the domestic work sector in Europe

The present report contains the results of research conducted between May and November 2014 for the EFFAT project “Promote industrial relations...

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...

Urban Livelihoods: Reviewing the Evidence in Support of the New Urban Agenda

The New Urban Agenda, the 20-year strategy on sustainable urbanization, was formally adopted by over 160 countries at the United Nations...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Towards an ILO Convention