Theme: Poverty / Inequality

Low-waged and Informal Employment in South Africa

Women Workers in the New Economy

Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households

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

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...

Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...

Redemption – The Documentary

From the documentary’s website: “They are New York City’s gleaners – struggling at the edge of our society. You see them on almost...

Expert Group Meeting – Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects

• April 2, 2019 - April 4, 2019

Geneva, Switzerland

Links with Poverty

Not all informal workers are poor and not all working poor are engaged in the informal economy — but there is significant overlap between...