Theme: Public and Workplace Services

Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South AsiaWorld Development

Homework can be seen as the source of exploitation of workers, but under some conditions, it can foster human development and the emergence...

Working People and Access To Social Protection

Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador

WIEGO Social Protection Case Study: The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme

DRAFT Document. Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers and, as...

Representações do trabalho informal e dos riscos à saúde entre trabalhadoras domésticas e trabalhadores da construção civil

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Injury Morbidity in an Urban and a Rural Area in Tanzania: an Epidemiological Survey

Background: Injuries are becoming a major health problem in developing countries. Few population based studies have been carried out in African...

Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana

Social Security for Street Vendors

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Promoting Workplace Health and Safety in Urban Public Space: Reflections from Durban, South Africa

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.