Public and Workplace Services

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...

Report of the Working Group on Occupational Safety and Health for the 12th Five Year Plan, 2012-2017

Global Wage Report 2012/13 Wages and equitable growth

This Report presents data on wage trends around the world and compares them with trends in labor production, analyzing the effects on the...

Social protection for women homeworkers: a case of healthcare services in Thailand

Health Risks and Informal Employment in South Africa: Does Formality Protect Health?International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

The association between work and health has not been well explored in the context of economically developing countries, largely due to inadequate...

Welfare, Development and Growth: Lessons from South Africa

Childcare Initiative Summary Report – Hindi

कामकाजी गरीब से संबंधित छह सदस्य-आधारित संगठनों (MBOs) से असंगठित महिला श्रमिकों और बच्चों की देखभाल पर शोध निष्कर्षों का सारांश

Informal Workers & The Future of Work: A Defence of Work-Related Social Protection

This Working Paper responds to current debates on the future of social protection as employment relationships become increasingly non-existent,...

Cleaning Up the Workplace: Occupational Health & Safety in Ghana

Occupational Health and Safety is rarely considered in relation to informal sector workers, whose working conditions are largely invisible...