Public and Workplace Services

Good Practices in Safety, Health, and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia and Thailand

Poor health kills small businesses: Illness and microenterprise in South Africa

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Chemicals Management and Occupational Health in Tanzania. Challenges and Strategies for Improvement

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. 

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