Purpose - Existence of working poverty reduces the effectiveness of the strategy of "increasing employment to reduce poverty". Developed countries are already concerned about it but insufficient attention has been made by developing countries. Focusing on developing countries this study...

American poverty research largely neglects labor unions. The authors use individual-level panel data, incorporate both household union membership and state-level union density, and analyze both working poverty and working-aged poverty (among households led by 18- to 64-year-olds). They estimate...

"Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how...

Le travail n'est pas une protection parfaite contre la pauvreté. La pauvreté laborieuse existe. Mais de qui et de quoi parle-t-on ? Quelle est l'ampleur du phénomène de pauvreté laborieuse ? Quelles sont les caractéristiques et les conditions de vie des personnes concernées ?...