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The double tsunami of the pandemic and lockdown in India will continue to have devastating impacts on the health and livelihoods of the poor, and the government relief package has gaps that informal worker organizations say must be filled.
This paper explores the impact of local government policies and urban plans on home-based workers in India and elsewhere. It presents recent national data on the size and composition of home-based work in developing countries as well as findings from two recent field studies of urban home-based...
Marty Chen's PowerPoint presentation to Spanish civil society leaders as part of a Global Civil Society Seminar organized by the Harvard Kennedy School and the Rafael del Pino Foundation of Spain in September 2019.
This paper examines inequality in the domain of work with a specific focus on informal work. It explores the relationship between informal employment, income poverty and income inequality, featuring national data dis-aggregated in telling ways, as well as grounded research findings, and brings in...
Marty Chen’s presentation to the Informality as a Way of Life: Challenges to Sustainable Urban Development (University of Pennsylvania Round-table) April 24, 2019
Carr Centre Discussion Paper Abstract: Following the Rana Plaza factory fires four years ago, the labour rights violations in global supply chains, and indeed the governance of global supply chains, has become a pressing global issue. This paper evaluates key existing global and national supply...
This publication is a brief version of the 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (ILO 2018). The 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy estimates that two billion (61 per cent) of the global employed population earn their living in the informal...
Marty Chen's keynote address, November 13, 2018, in Johannesburg at the 7th WIEGO General Assembly.
This book presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political, and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Marty Chen, WIEGO's International Coordinator Emeritus, gave this presentation at the UN High Level Panel during the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in Geneva.
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.