Livelihoods

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.

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers in Morocco

Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Decent work deficits in informal economy: Case of Surat

Informality and Collective Organising: identities, alliances and transnational activism in Africa

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What’s Informal About the Informal Sector? Culture and the Construction of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

New Solutions Journal Special Issue: Health and Safety for Informal Workers