Introduction / Bruno Roelants and Hyungsik Eum -- Work and cooperatives : a century of ILO interaction with the cooperative movement / Claudia Sanchez Bajo -- Cooperatives and the future of work / Jürgen Schwettmann -- Cooperatives and fundamental principles and rights at work : natural...

Introduction / Bruno Roelants and Hyungsik Eum -- Work and cooperatives : a century of ILO interaction with the cooperative movement / Claudia Sanchez Bajo -- Cooperatives and the future of work / Jürgen Schwettmann -- Cooperatives and fundamental principles and rights at work : natural...

The greater emphasis on governance issues in economic reform programmes of Middle East and North African (MENA) countries has given inadequate attention to labor governance. This paper draws on the experience of Nordic countries to review the role of labor governance institutions, tripartism,...

The article locates women's informal employment in the Occupied Territories (OPT) in the context of the global and regional economy making a connection with the local. While it discusses Palestine in a global and regional context it also emphasizes the uniqueness of the Palestinian condition...

In this study I examine gender-based earnings differences among the urban self-employed in Turkey. I argue that human capital, as well as prevailing social and institutional structures, contribute to earnings differences. Social and institutional factors considered include women's heavy...

In this comment the issues of power hierarchies and the role of feminist methodology in fieldwork are addressed. Observations from fieldwork in Turkey for research on gender-based constraints faced by women micro- and small entrepreneurs are used to identify some of the power hierarchies...