The International Labour Organisation's Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world's workers.
More than 2.1 billion of the world's 3.6 billion workers—around 60 percent—labour in the informal economy. They work on a casual basis for low pay, often in hazardous conditions and without legal rights, job security or social protection, including sick pay, medical or disability insurance, unemployment benefits or pensions.
Informal or casual work is the dominant form of employment in much of the global South. In sub-Saharan Africa, informal employment reaches around 90 percent; in South and South-East Asia, it is similarly pervasive, accompanied by widespread poverty and severe decent-work deficits.
Informalisation is growing in the advanced economies, where migrant labour is widely used in agriculture, care work, hospitality and construction, and where "off-the-books" subcontracting has expanded in logistics and delivery through the platform or gig economy.....
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/04/hlnv-m04.html
Executive summary: https://researchrepository.ilo.org/view/delivery/41ILO_INST/13147301360002676?bypassKey=492dd5a5-3f7a-45de-9fa7-2d91f07c5f19
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