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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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