Public and Workplace Services

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

Extending Labour Law to All Workers: Promoting Decent Work in the Informal Economy in Cambodia, Thailand and Mongolia

Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections

This brief points to the inappropriate decoupling of social policy from employment objectives and outlines their intrinsic links. It argues...

Informal workers and the use of mobile technology and communications: Findings from key informant interviews

This is a report of a small study done to explore how mobile phones are being used, and might be better used, to improve the health of informal...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve

This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...

Better OHS for Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This is a summary of a case study by Tony Dzidzinyo Dogbe and Suki Annan.

The Welfare Fund Model of Social Security for Informal Sector Workers: The Kerala Experience

CDS Working Paper, No. 332

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...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries