Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças argumenta que benefícios à maternidade e os serviços de cuidado infantil...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Health Conditions of Recyclable Waste Pickers

Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the...

Paid Care Providers in South Africa: Nurses, Domestic Workers, and Home-Based Care Workers

Maid to Order: Ending Abuses Against Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

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...

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

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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...