Public and Workplace Services

Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South AsiaWorld Development

Homework can be seen as the source of exploitation of workers, but under some conditions, it can foster human development and the emergence...

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

Social pensions and policy learning: The case of southern Africa

Unprotected Migrants: Zimbabweans in South Africa’s Limpopo Province

Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest

Occupationally related injury and illness is a major, but largely under-explored, potential source of worker vulnerability. This study investigates...

Health Impact of Occupational Risks in the Informal Sector in ZimbabweInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: The case of home-based clothing workers in AustraliaAustralian Journal of Labour Law

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Work-Related Social Protection for Informal Workers

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A Study of Working Conditions inthe Zanzibar Seaweed Farming Industry

This study aims to produce a, clear portrait of working conditions in the seaweed farming industry in Zanzibar from a worker perspective....