Public and Workplace Services

Labour Migration and Households: A Reconsideration of the Effects of the Social Pension on Labour Supply in South Africa

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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Hidden health costs of pesticide use in Zimbabwe’s smallholder cotton growers

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...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

Labour Market Vulnerability in Urban China-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This paper tries to measure the vulnerability in urban labour markets by introducing a new form, wherein job security and social security...

New Solutions Journal Special Issue: Health and Safety for Informal Workers

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...

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,...