Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

Help Wanted: Abuses Against Female Domestic Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia

Is precarious employment more damaging to women’s health than men’s?

SEWA Project: Productivity Impact Study

SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal...

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...

The Welfare Fund Model of Social Security for Informal Sector Workers: The Kerala Experience

CDS Working Paper, No. 332

Long-term injury related disability in Ghana

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

Pesticide Vendors in the Informal Sector: Trading Health for Income

Abstract: South African low-income communities face many challenges (e.g., insufficient housing, poor service delivery, and abject poverty);...

Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Evidence from Asia

Economic consequences of injury and resulting family coping strategies in Ghana