Public and Workplace Services

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...

A summary of research findings on women informal workers and child care from six membership-based organizations

This publication is a summary of “Our children do not get the attention they deserve”: A synthesis of research finding on women informal...

Adding Methodological Thickness to the Study of Social Policy & Informal Workers in the Development Context: Relational Approaches & Adverse Incorporation

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Child Labour in Industrial Outworker Households in India

Occupational and Environmental Health Risks Associated with Informal Sector Activities—Selected Case Studies from West Africa

Abstract: Most in the Economic Community of West African States region are employed in the informal sector. While the informal sector plays...

Role of Informal Sector Recycling in Waste Management in Developing Countries

The Dilemma of the Informal Sector, Report of the Director-General

International Labour Conference, 78th Session, Geneva

The Exceptional Persistence of India’s Unorganized Sector

This paper documents several key facts about India’s unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. the paper investigates conditions...

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?