Building Collective Power

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Cooperatives and Unions: Joint Action for Informal Workers

Abstract: This article discusses the possibilities of building networks between trade unions and cooperatives operating in the informal economy....

God is My Alarm Clock: A Brazilian Waste Picker’s Story

The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution...

Urban Informal Workers: Representative Voice & Economic Rights

Background Paper for 2013 World Development Report on Jobs    

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Refusing to be Cast Aside: Waste Pickers Organising Around the World

This book is organised around some of the key themes related to the organising of waste pickers and their integration into municipal waste...

Certification of Occupational Skills: A Decisive Step Towards Professionalizing Waste Picking as an Occupation and Recycling of Solid Waste in Colombia

This document emphasizes the transformation of the waste management model and the labor certification process, which is a recognition of...

Reclaiming the World’s Waste: Waste Pickers Organizing for Inclusion

Industrial Conflict in India in the Post-Reform Period

The processes of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation were expected to weaken the bargaining power of workers vis-à-vis employers...

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

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