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How Cooperatives Improve Workers’ Economic and Productive Capacities
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Homeworkers’ Rights at Risk with EU Directive Uncertainty
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From Isolation to Collective Power: Legal Empowerment for Domestic Workers
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Key Outcomes from the 2025 International Labour Conference and Why They Matter for Workers in Informal Employment
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The Climate Tragedy of Rio Grande do Sul Revisited from the Perspective of Waste Pickers
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A Tragédia Climática do Rio Grande do Sul Revisitada à Luz dos Catadore-as de Recicláveis
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The Destruction of Social Protection and Inclusive Labour Policies in Argentina
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Amid austerity and aid cuts, workers need to deepen their understanding of domestic financing of social protection
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Street Vendors and Market Traders in 12 Countries: Key Facts
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A Year in Street Vendor Trends, and What To Watch in 2025
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Labour Rights are Human Rights! Beyond the Slogan for Workers in Informal Employment
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What the Digitalization of Formalization Efforts Means for Workers in Informal Employment
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Why African Craft Makers Should Understand Supply Chains Better
African home-based workers are at the bottom of craft supply chains. Through an increased understanding of those supply chains they could...
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How Recyclers and Vendors in New York City are Challenging Big Money to Build a Better City for Working People
By keeping corporations accountable for the waste they produce and providing affordable goods and services to working class people, recyclers...
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Overturning the Productivity Mandate: Putting People at the Centre
It is a myth that cooperatives, which put people at the centre, are not a viable alternative to the current economic system because they...
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The Devil Is in the Detail: The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains
How close collaboration between homeworker organizations and key allies secured a huge victory: for the first time, EU legislation on corporate...
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‘A Hungry Trader is an Angry Trader’: The Risks of Criminalizing Citizens Who Create Their Own Jobs
If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely...
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Street Vendors Organize Against Evictions in Dakar
Dakar’s street vendors have united in the PASI platform to assert their rights and propose alternative solutions to the evictions and relocations...
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Registering Informal Workers in India: e-Shram, an Opportunity Lost?
The launch of e-Shram, a national database of workers who earn a living in the informal economy, holds lessons for implementation going forward...
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Statistics as a Catalyst for Making Women Workers Visible
Renana Jhabvala, co-founder of SEWA and former chair of WIEGO, talks about the historical relationship between both organizations, and the...
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