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Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential EnforcementReview of Development Economics This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. Read More
Neglect of Sewage Workers: Concerns about the New Act The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually... Read More
Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India. Read More
The Material and the Symbolic: Intersectionalities of Home-Based Work in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly Capital has an overarching logic of accumulation in general and yet the economic rationale, intercepted by national and local configurations... Read More
Revisiting Agency Work in Namibia and South Africa: Any Lessons from the Decent Work Agenda and the Flexicurity Approach?International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations Abstract: Namibia has recently introduced policies regarding the regulation of agency work, and South Africa is in the process of doing the... Read More
Industrial Conflict in India in the Post-Reform Period The processes of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation were expected to weaken the bargaining power of workers vis-à-vis employers... Read More
Informal employment and health status in Central AmericaBMC Public Health Background: Informal employment is assumed to be an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of... Read More
Women and Globalisation: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Construction Workers in Contemporary India This article identifies the opportunities and constraints faced by female construction workers in urban India, citing empirical research... Read More
Waste management policy: implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western CapeInternational Journal of Environment and Waste Management Abstract: The City of Cape Town Solid Waste Management Department’s (CCTSWMD) design of a more formal, integrated and sustainable waste... Read More
When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of... Read More
