Asia & the Pacific

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadores e Catadoras em Pune, na Índia

City Report (English)

Mapping India’s World of Unorganized LabourSocialist Register

Abstract: The massive unorganized sector, which contributes some 60% of GDP beyond the regulative and protective reach of the state, is one...

Pakistan’s Hidden Workers

From the Executive Summary: “The aim of the research was to map and trace supply chains in Pakistan’s informal economy; to identify...

Outworkers and Precarity: The Case of Victorian Clothing WorkersJust Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy

Abstract: Clothing outworkers are some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the Australian labour market. If trade unions are...

Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets

Homework in the Context of Globalization

Paper prepared for the workshop, “Towards Securer Lives – Social Protection for Home Based Workers in South Asia,”...

Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Reshaping the social contract: emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India

Abstract: This article focuses on informal construction and bidi (local tobacco) workers in India. Informal workers in these sectors can...

Trends and Processes of Urbanisation in India