Publications: Workers and Trade Unions

2009

• Informal employment in Arab States: A gender equality and workers’ rights perspective - (pdf 1,171KB)
  Regional Office for Arab States
  
  Subject: The regional initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Centre for Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) aims to bring the global knowledge and learning on employment in the informal economy into Arab States, and mainstream Arab States into the global discussion through evidence, data and analysis. It consists of three interlinked components: research, knowledge sharing and awareness raising. It adopts the concept of informal employment to refer to the characteristics of jobs rather than those of the economic units. Furthermore, a gender equality and workers' rights perspective is applied to the analysis of informal employment in select Arab States (Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia).

2008

• Unprotected Employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Gender Equality and Workers’ Rights Perspective- (pdf 3,533KB)
  Regional Office for Arab States
  Reference: ISBN 978-92-2-021435-0 (web PDF)
  
  Subject: This paper examines informal employment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) and argues that the best way to convey the meaning and significance of informal employment in this context is to view it as unprotected or unacknowledged work. This type of employment is no longer confined to small, unregistered enterprises with non-contractual work; instead, it now includes larger, registered enterprises with contractual employment but little or no social protection and entitlements. Informal employment, understood as unprotected or unacknowledged employment, is studied from the perspective of gender equality and workers’ rights.