May Day 2026: Worker Organizations Uphold Democracy Amidst Rising Conflict and Authoritarianism Read More
The Right to Work on the Street: Public Space and Constitutional Rights.Planning Theory Do people have a right to work on the street? If so, what are the constraints and conditions attached to this right? Historically, municipal... Read More
Macro-Level Determinants of Paid Domestic Labour Prevalence: A Cross-National Analysis of Seventy-Four CountriesSocial Policy and Society Abstract: The growing demand for domestic workers has been linked to several global developments, such as an ageing population, income inequality,... Read More
WIEGO Annual Report 2013-2014 This report covers the activities carried out in 2013-2014 including the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), WIEGO’s initiative... Read More
Bringing Formal Business Laws to Cameroon’s Informal Sector: Lessons and Cautions from the Tax Law ExampleWashington University Global Studies Law Review Abstract: A substantial majority of non-agricultural workers in a developing country such as Cameroon engage in legal businesses below the... Read More
Modernist Planning and the Foundations of Urban Violence in Latin AmericaBuilt Environment This article suggests that both the origins and responses to urban violence in Latin America have involved some sort of state ordering of... Read More
Prompting Formalisation Through Labour Market Regulation: A ‘Framed Flexibility’ Model for Domestic WorkIndustrial Law Journal There is an urgent need to conceptualise the potential for legal regulation of informal labour markets. This article responds by centring... Read More
Labour and Petty ProductionDevelopment and Change Abstract: One of many fracture zones in the right-less workforce is between wage labour, disguised wage labour (DWL) and petty commodity... Read More
A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy? Normative approaches to urban governance and planning and idealised visions of city space too often result in relocation or forced eviction... Read More
Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and ExclusionThe European Journal of Development Research At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This renewed interest has rekindled some of the old debates about... Read More
