Building Collective Power

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

Paper prepared for the Social Law Project Conference, 7-8 May 2010, Cape Town.

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

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

ILO: Geneva

Combining Forces – Networks and Federations of Waste Picker Organisations

Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience

Organising Women Workers in the Informal EconomyGender and Development

Abstract: This article focuses on the challenges facing organisation among the hardest-to-reach working women in the informal economy. What...

Planning and the Self-Organization of MarketplacesJournal of Planning Education and Research

The number of marketplaces in the United States is growing rapidly. This growth belies the long history of marketplaces and signals their...

Resumo dos principais achados – Cooperacao entre trabalhadores na economia informal: Um foco nos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras domiciliares e catadores e catadoras de material reciclavel