Building Collective Power

Third Regional Meeting of Home-based Worker Organizations and Supporters in Latin America

• September 18, 2019 - September 19, 2019
• Lima, Perú

WIEGO, together with Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras en Domicilio en América Latina y el Caribe (COTRADO-ALAC),...

Interview: How South Africa Could Become a Model for Formalizing the Informal Economy

WIEGO’s Organization & Representation Programme Director, Jane Barrett, talks about the ILO’s Recommendation 204 on formalizing the...

Worker Education & Advocacy Materials

COVID-19: Safety, prevention and advocacy resources For Domestic Workers’ Organizations Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 –...

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

Voice Regulation in the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work

Abstract:This paper draws comparisons between the situation of Black workers in Apartheid South Africa and workers in the contemporary South...

Winning Fair Labour Standards for Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from the Campaign for a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in New York State

Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

The politics of vulnerability: Exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters

Abstract:This book chapter examines whether informal economic associations provide an effective mechanism for political voice. Moreover,...

A Spreading Banyan Tree: the Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.