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From Data to Action: Worker-Led Research to Shape Climate Debates
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Systems Change in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Power-Shifts Framework
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How Do Cooperatives Support Worker Recognition and Political Representation?
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Funding Development Through the Lens of Tax Justice and Social Protection
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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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Protecting Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: Evaluating The Rights-Based Approach
Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza buildings in Bangladesh in 2013, the decent work deficits in global supply chains have enjoyed...
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Worker’s Story: Sizakele Ncube’s new sewing machine brings both improved income and new worries
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring technologies used by informal workers to improve their productivity and some of the challenges...
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Estrategias para la negociación colectiva exitosa
Las organizaciones de trabajadores y trabajadoras* en empleo informal necesitan solidaridad, claridad y responsabilidad para conseguir victorias...
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Tecnología en la base de la pirámide económica: ¿Qué impide que llegue a los trabajadores y trabajadoras en empleo informal?
Por Kendra Hughes
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‘No necesitas Facebook para saber cómo recolectar residuos’
Tecnología e innovación en la base de la pirámide económica
Nisha tiene 19 años y pasa sus días encorvada sobre una pequeña tabla en el...
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Strategies for Successful Collective Negotiations
Informal worker organizations need solidarity, clarity and accountability to record bargaining wins
It might be surprising to learn that...
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Technology at the bottom of the economic pyramid: What’s inhibiting uptake by informal workers?
By Kendra Hughes
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‘You don’t need Facebook to tell you how to pick waste’
Technology and innovation at the base of the economic pyramid
Nisha is nineteen years old and spends her days hunched over a small board...
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Los derechos de los recicladores y las recicladoras de Ciudad de México son reconocidos por la Comisión de Derechos Humanos
En agosto de 2016, la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (CDHDF) publicó por primera vez una Recomendación sobre el servicio...
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Mexico City’s Waste Pickers Gain Support of City’s Human Rights Commission
In August 2016, Mexico City’s Commission on Human Rights (CDHDF) issued the first-ever recommendation on waste management service to...
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