May Day 2026: Worker Organizations Uphold Democracy Amidst Rising Conflict and Authoritarianism Read More
Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador In the context of globalization and policies to promote free trade on an international scale, this paper discusses what has happened to... Read More
Informal Transport: A Global Perspective Informal transport services—paratransit-type services provided without official sanction—can often be difficult to rationalize from a public... Read More
Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence CPRC Working Paper 97 Read More
Uncovering Non-Garment Homework in Australia: Preliminary Issues Abstract: Homeworkers are the most marginalized and one of the most exploited groups of workers (Greig, 2002), with an estimated 300 million... Read More
Introducing basic social protection in low income countries: Lessons from existing programmes Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 6 Read More
Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador.Antipode Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south... Read More
Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility... Read More
