Laura Alfers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Alfers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfers |
| SIGNATURE | ALFERS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5925-7367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Covid‐19 et travail informel
Les auteurs présentent les conclusions d'une étude dirigée par le réseau Femmes dans l'emploi informel: globalisation et organisation (WIEGO) sur les effets de la crise du COVID‐19 sur les travailleurs informels. L'analyse porte sur quatre professions et onze grandes villes de cinq régions. Il y est question du travail et des revenus, de l'accès à l'alimentation et de la faim, des responsabilités familiales et domestiques, ainsi que des stratégie…
Pandemic, informality and women’s work
The ILO World Social Protection Report 2017-19
Handbook of Social Policy and Development
The key institutions, actors, processes and outcomes of social policy and development are traditionally conceptualized and theorized in relation to countries, and intra-national processes of development and change.An established body of literature considers how social policy and social development strategies, actors, institutions and outcomes in transnational contexts, emphasising how these are projected 'outwardly' and how policy formation trans…
Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy
In the early part of the post-apartheid period in South Africa, a ‘feminisation of the labour force’ coincided with an increasing concentration of women in unemployment as well as in informal and low-paid work. In other words, and as observed at the time, an improvement in female labour participation did not seem to ‘buy’ much for South African women. Accordingly, the overrepresentation of women in informal employment has been identified as a key…
Afrika /Africa
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
Women informal workers demand child care
The inclusion of a specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target (5.4) addressing women’s and girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work is cited, by feminists and women’s rights organisations, as progress compared to the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Governments are tasked with rolling out public services and social protection measures to reduce the time women spend on domestic chores and taking care of children an…
Approaches to social protection for informal workers
There has been increasing recognition of the growth of informal employment in the global South and North. Most informal work is precarious and low paid, with workers having little or no access to social protection. It is sometimes suggested that an approach that moves away from productivism – the idea of work as a pathway to access social protection – and towards a universal human rights‐based approach is important. However, this article argues t…
Promoting workplace health and safety in urban public space
This article is a critical reflection on the Phephanathi Platform, an ongoing collaboration among organizations of informal traders working in the Warwick Junction markets in Durban, South Africa and their support organizations. The purpose of the Platform is to experiment with the extension of occupational health and safety to informal workers working in urban public space through the establishment of an integrated urban health platform. The art…
Women informal workers demand child care
The inclusion of a specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target (5.4) addressing women’s and girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work is cited, by feminists and women’s rights organisations, as progress compared to the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Governments are tasked with rolling out public services and social protection measures to reduce the time women spend on domestic chores and taking care of children an…
Approaches to social protection for informal workers
There has been increasing recognition of the growth of informal employment in the global South and North. Most informal work is precarious and low paid, with workers having little or no access to social protection. It is sometimes suggested that an approach that moves away from productivism – the idea of work as a pathway to access social protection – and towards a universal human rights‐based approach is important. However, this article argues t…
Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy
In the early part of the post-apartheid period in South Africa, a ‘feminisation of the labour force’ coincided with an increasing concentration of women in unemployment as well as in informal and low-paid work. In other words, and as observed at the time, an improvement in female labour participation did not seem to ‘buy’ much for South African women. Accordingly, the overrepresentation of women in informal employment has been identified as a key…
The ILO World Social Protection Report 2017-19
Pandemic, informality and women’s work
Afrika /Africa
Promoting workplace health and safety in urban public space
This article is a critical reflection on the Phephanathi Platform, an ongoing collaboration among organizations of informal traders working in the Warwick Junction markets in Durban, South Africa and their support organizations. The purpose of the Platform is to experiment with the extension of occupational health and safety to informal workers working in urban public space through the establishment of an integrated urban health platform. The art…
Approaches to social protection for informal workers
There has been increasing recognition of the growth of informal employment in the global South and North. Most informal work is precarious and low paid, with workers having little or no access to social protection. It is sometimes suggested that an approach that moves away from productivism – the idea of work as a pathway to access social protection – and towards a universal human rights‐based approach is important. However, this article argues t…
Women informal workers demand child care
The inclusion of a specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target (5.4) addressing women’s and girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work is cited, by feminists and women’s rights organisations, as progress compared to the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Governments are tasked with rolling out public services and social protection measures to reduce the time women spend on domestic chores and taking care of children an…
Handbook of Social Policy and Development
The key institutions, actors, processes and outcomes of social policy and development are traditionally conceptualized and theorized in relation to countries, and intra-national processes of development and change.An established body of literature considers how social policy and social development strategies, actors, institutions and outcomes in transnational contexts, emphasising how these are projected 'outwardly' and how policy formation trans…
Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy
In the early part of the post-apartheid period in South Africa, a ‘feminisation of the labour force’ coincided with an increasing concentration of women in unemployment as well as in informal and low-paid work. In other words, and as observed at the time, an improvement in female labour participation did not seem to ‘buy’ much for South African women. Accordingly, the overrepresentation of women in informal employment has been identified as a key…
Afrika /Africa
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
The ILO World Social Protection Report 2017-19
Covid‐19 et travail informel
Les auteurs présentent les conclusions d'une étude dirigée par le réseau Femmes dans l'emploi informel: globalisation et organisation (WIEGO) sur les effets de la crise du COVID‐19 sur les travailleurs informels. L'analyse porte sur quatre professions et onze grandes villes de cinq régions. Il y est question du travail et des revenus, de l'accès à l'alimentation et de la faim, des responsabilités familiales et domestiques, ainsi que des stratégie…
Pandemic, informality and women’s work
Political science (9 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works) · Informal sector (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social protection (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works)