Theme: Livelihoods

Cooperatives and Unions: Joint Action for Informal Workers

Abstract: This article discusses the possibilities of building networks between trade unions and cooperatives operating in the informal economy....

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

Organizing informal workers in the urban economy: The case of the construction industry in Dar es Salaam

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Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzen Special Economic Zone, China

The Constitutional Parameters of New York State’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Gathering Occupational Health Data from Informal Workers: The Brazilian Experience

Abstract: This study describes how occupational health data have been gathered by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) to provide morbidity...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Reflections on Recent Approaches to Tackle Informality

Understanding Gender Inequalities in Wages and Incomes in India

The contested spatialities of transnational activism: gendered gatekeeping and gender struggles in an African association of informal workers

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Die ILO-Konvention: Gute Arbeit für HausarbeiterinnenLuXemburg: Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxis

The English title of this German language article is “The ILO Convention Decent Work for Domestic Workers. More than a promise?”...