Poverty / Inequality

Home Truths: Domestic Workers in California

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

El empoderamiento de las mujeres: Encuentro del primer y tercer mundos en los estudios de géneroRevista de estudios de género: La ventana

Resumen: Dos conceptos han marcado la producción de la teoría feminista: género y empoderamiento.

Home Truths: Wellbeing and Vulnerabilities of Child Domestic Workers

Globalization and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the Working Poor

This paper examines the impact of globalization on those who work in the informal economy, with a special emphasis on women workers and producers. ...

Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?

Abstract: This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty...

PR No. 15A – Text of the Convention Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers

The present document, which elaborates, describes and explains the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011, is the result of the General Conference...

The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India

This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of...

Temporary Help Workers in the U.S. Labor Market

Summary: The number of jobs in the temporary help services industry reached an all-time high of 2.9 million in May 2015, accounting for 2.4...

The Informal sector in Asia from the Decent Work Perspective

This report is the first of a series of papers that were commissioned under the auspices of the ILO Inter-Sectoral Task Force on the Informal...