All posts in Workers’ Health and Safety
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Journal Articles
Is precarious employment more damaging to women’s health than men’s?
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Research Reports
Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana
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Journal Articles
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...
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Research Reports
The Place of Informal Workers and the Informal Economy in Approaches to Social Protection
Increasing numbers of workers across the world experience eroding work related to social protection and those who ‘do’ social policy see...
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Journal Articles
Unprotected Labour: What Role for Unions in the Informal Economy?
Articles include:InterviewInformal work: From concept to action, by Christine NathanInformal work: Concept and definitionWork, law and the...
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Working Papers
Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest
Occupationally related injury and illness is a major, but largely under-explored, potential source of worker vulnerability. This study investigates...
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Journal Articles
Long-term injury related disability in Ghana
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Journal Articles
The Effects of Handling Solid Waste on the Wellbeing of Informal and Organized Recyclers: a review of the literature
Estimated at 15 million people operating globally, informal recyclers perform a vital public service while working individually or within...
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Research Reports
Trabajadores en empleo informal: acceso a servicios de salud y posible acceso a la seguridad social
Este estudio cualitativo que reúne los hallazgos de una investigación sobre el acceso a servicios de salud y posible acceso a seguridad social...
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Research Reports
Violence and Informal Work – Briefing Note
this briefing note highlights the causes and impact of violence that informal workers experience in trying to secure their livelihoods....
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