Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Towards an inclusive Occupational Safety and Health for informal workers: A South-South collaboration in five countriesAsian-Pacific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety

see pages 54-55

Depressive and anxiety symptoms among housemaidsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine

Background: Housemaid, the most common occupation in the female labor force in Brazil, is known to be targeted by a generalized racial and...

Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives

The Urban Dibao Program in China: Targeting and its EffectThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics

In this paper, the data of China’s Urban Employment and Social Protection Survey 2010 (CULS3) has been adopted to evaluate the dibao programme...

Towards an Inclusive Occupational Health and Safety For Informal Workers

Abstract: Large numbers of workers worldwide work informally. Yet the discipline and practice of occupational health and safety covers largely...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Extending Health and Safety to Informal Workers: A Photo Essay

Introduction: There is great diversity in the informal economy—of occupation, place of work, status in employment, extent of regulation,...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Minor Psychiatric Disorders Among Brazilian Ragpickers: A Cross-Sectional Study

Unprotected Migrants: Zimbabweans in South Africa’s Limpopo Province