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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

    Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

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  • Research Reports

    Going Nowhere Fast: Limited Occupational Mobility in the Fast Food Industry

    Front-line jobs in the fast food industry—including cooks, cashiers, delivery workers, and other non-managerial positions—rank among the...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Women in Informal Employment: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?

    This is a chapter from the publication, “Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries.”

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  • Journal Articles

    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.

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  • Research Reports

    The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality

    Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper, No. 59

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  • Research Reports

    Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?

    From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality

    NELP Summary: This report updates NELP’s previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. More information...

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