Building Collective Power

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

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CSI Guía de acción – Trabajo decente, vida decente para los trabajadores y trabajadoras del hogar

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

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

The Beedi Industry in India: An Overview

A report on Improving Working Conditions and Employment Opportunities for Women Workers in Beedi Industry by Best Practices Foundation for...

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...

Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market

This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...

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...

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

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