Theme: Building Collective Power

Informelle Ökonomie und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland

Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.

WIEGO, its work on waste-pickers and the first World Encounter of Waste-pickers in Colombia, 2008

Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions

This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...

Informal Worker Organising and Mobilisation: Linking Global with Local Advocacy

Reshaping the social contract: emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India

Abstract: This article focuses on informal construction and bidi (local tobacco) workers in India. Informal workers in these sectors can...

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Out of the Shadows: Organising and protecting domestic workers in Europe: The role of trade unions

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Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.

Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India

A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...