Workers in the informal economy
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- Challenging gender roles in small scale mining
- ( International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO , 2007)
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In the small-scale mining industry little is understood about the roles and activities of girls and the effect that this has on their lives and livelihoods. The issue of girl child labour in mining...
- Integration of female migrants into the labour markets
- ( M, Kontos / FeMiPol , 2008)
- Migration flows to EU countries during the last few decades indicate a growth in feminisation, with female migrants increasingly entering informal labour markets in care, health, domesti...
- An overview of ILO research on women gender and the informal economy
- ( S. Chant;C. Pedwell / International Labour Organization , 2008)
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Informal work has not only persisted on an international scale since the 1970s, but has also expanded and appeared in new guises in the context of globalization, neo-liberalism and cross-bord...
- Are Chinese women migrant workers fighting back against social discrimination?
- ( A. Loong-yu;N. Shan;Z. Ping / Committee for Asian Women , 2008)
- This report assesses the impact of the capitalist reforms since the 1990’s in China’s one-party system. It particularly focuses on the experiences of women rural migrant workers and looks ...
- How are women and men dealing with feminisation of labour?
- ( N, Kabeer / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2008)
- Globalisation has led to the increased entry of women into paid work, often alongside a stagnation or decline in male employment. This paper explores the implications of this feminisation of labour ma...
- Organising home-based workers in South and South East Asia
- ( D. L. Doane / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK , 2007)
- This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is...
- Unequal work time allocation in Bolivia – the gender influence
- ( M. Medeiros; R. Osorio; J. Costa / UNDP International Poverty Centre , 2007)
- How does gender influence the allocation of time among adults and results in inequalities among individuals? This paper analyses paid and unpaid work inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using tim...
- Sex work needs to be seen from a livelihoods perspective
- ( M. O'Donnell; M. Khozombah; S. Mudenda / Save the Children Fund , 2002)
- Recommended reading
- This report, from Save the Children (SC), explores the links between commercial sex work and food security in a fishing community in northern Zimbabwe. The authors found that one of the coping strateg...
- The plight of women and girls in Hong Kong
- ( A. Kershaw; D. DeGolyer / The Women's Foundation , 2006)
- Hong Kong’s women and girls are undervalued, discriminated against, victims of domestic violence and exhibit one of the highest suicide rates in the world. To improve the lives of these women a bette...
- Gender implications of structural adjustment programmes
- ( L. Lingam / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2006)
- This paper provides a critical review of selected literature emerging from the African, Latin American, Caribbean and Asian countries that have adopted structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) and thro...
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