Public and Workplace Services

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Long-term injury related disability in Ghana

Developing an Action-based Health and Safety Training Project in Southern China

SEWA Project: Productivity Impact Study

SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal...

Corporate Capitalism in the Name of Social Security

The many schemes that have been announced in the name of social security are limited in scope and the quantum of security they prefer. The...

Pesticide Vendors in the Informal Sector: Trading Health for Income

Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty);...

Adding Methodological Thickness to the Study of Social Policy & Informal Workers in the Development Context: Relational Approaches & Adverse Incorporation

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Gathering Occupational Health Data from Informal Workers: The Brazilian Experience

Abstract: This study describes how occupational health data have been gathered by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) to provide morbidity...

A Framework for Analyzing Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Always on Call: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia