Region: Asia & the Pacific

Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA

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Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...

Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...

Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour

this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal...

Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: The case of home-based clothing workers in AustraliaAustralian Journal of Labour Law

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The Informal Economy in South Africa: Issues, Debates and Policies – Reflections after an Exposure Dialogue Programme

Homework in the Context of Globalization

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

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

Organising as a catalyst for promoting decent work in the informal economy in South Asia

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