Building Collective Power

Trade unions and the challenge of the informalisation of work

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Domestic Workers: Organizing the Patience Industry

Camarada Albertina Mundlovo is a domestic worker in Maputo, Mozambique. An Indian Ocean port city, Maputo is Mozambique’s largest economic...

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

Women Workers and the Politics of Claims-Making in a Globalizing Economy

The paper analyses the evolving politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South in the context of a globalized economy. It...

Organizing Informal Workers: Benefits, Challenges, and Successes

Abstract: The informal workforce represents more than half of all workers in most developing countries and a significant share of workers...

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...

Globalization and Economic Reform as Seen From the Ground: SEWA’s Experience in India

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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...

Collective Care Agreements in the Informal Labour Market: Road Transport Workers in Pakistan

Informal workers Organising and Representation (In Central and Eastern Europe).