Background Reading
  On Wages
  On Activism
  Labour Standards
  Supply Chain
  On Industry

Background Reading

On Labour Standards

  Decent" working conditions for informal economy workers- April 2002

  The self-organisation of homeworkers, street-vendors, domestic workers and other workers in the informal economy has led to the formation of unions, workers’ organisations ...
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  The Global Garment Industry and the Informal Economy: Critical Issues for Labor Rights Advocates-September 2004

  This paper has been written as an input for the seminar “Campaigning strategies on informal labour in the global garment industry,” organized ...
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  Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries -2003

  Over recent decades, there has been the substantial rise in the proportion of people engaged in what is termed informal employment, generating a broad trend toward “informalization” of labor market conditions in developing countries, even when economic growth is proceeding ...
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