International Labour Conference 2026: What Does the New Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy Mean for Workers? Read More
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Building movements in the informal economy: Lessons for advancing labour rights in the circular economy Read More
Social Dialogue for Social Protection: A Perspective from the Informal Economy in Southeast Asia Read More
The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali) Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey... Read More
Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while... Read More
Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour... Read More
Informal Workers in India: A Statistical Profile Employment in India is overwhelmingly informal: 90 per cent of all workers are employed under informal arrangements nationally; in urban... Read More
No Place for Street Vendors: Global Capital and Local Exclusion in an East Asian Immigrant Enclave of New York City The survey on which this Resource Document is based shows that, for many people in the New York City neighbourhood of Flushing, a good neighbourhood... Read More
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inclusive Recycling in Brazil Totally reshaping our systems of inclusive recycling is important if we take into consideration that waste pickers are an essential part... Read More
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future This open-access book, edited by Martha Chen and Françoise Carré, brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts,... Read More
