Public and Workplace Services

Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuries

Pesticide Health and Safety Challenges Facing Informal Sector Workers: A Case of Small-scale Agricultural Workers in Tanzania

Abstract: The Tanzania informal sector is growing fast, with precarious working conditions and particular hazards for women and children...

Subcontracted Homework in India: a Case Study of Three Sectors

The Gender Dimensions of the Globalization of Production

This paper focuses on the globalization of production that has opened up opportunities for women to enter new areas of paid employment, earn...

Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1), International Labour Conference, 103rd Session, 2014

Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain

The report on Employment Relationships and Working Conditions in an IKEA Rattan Supply Chain aims to contribute to the global debate and...

Hierarchies of Care Work in South Africa: Nurses, Social Workers and Home-based Care Workers

Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions

Bad Dreams: Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms