This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.
This publication provides direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. The publication also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers. Chapter 1 details progress at the international level in developing definitions and methodologies for measuring the informal economy and its constituent parts. Chapter 2 presents national data on informal employment outside of agriculture, disaggregated by sex. Detailed data on specific countries are presented in the annex tables. Chapter 3 discusses non-standard employment in developed countries, and Chapter 4 focuses on specific groups of informal workers, including four groups of urban informal workers (based on national data compiled by the WIEGO network) and domestic workers (based on ILO data). Chapter 5 recommends future directions to improve the collection of data on the informal economy.