Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

School of Development Studies Research Report 76

Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence

CPRC Working Paper 97

Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

Delinking and Rethinking Social Protection for Women in Informal Employment? Perspectives from Latin America

In the Latin America region, women in informal employment struggle to gain access to health, old-age pensions or maternity benefits, because...

Participatory Training to Improve Safety and Health in Small Construction Sites in Some Countries in Asia: Development and Application of the WISCON Training Program

Abstract: A participatory training program, Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites, was developed to provide practical support measures...

Informality and Social Protection: Theory and Realities

Introducing basic social protection in low income countries: Lessons from existing programmes

Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 6

Latin American capitalism: economic and social policy in transition

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

Abstract: