Building Collective Power

Case studies of collective bargaining and representative forums for street traders

Here StreetNet shares a variety of case studies from around the world about street traders and collective bargaining.

Informal Worker Organising and Mobilisation: Linking Global with Local Advocacy

Recycling Livelihoods: A Global Network Supports Waste-Pickers in Latin America

Standing for long hours in line to receive your first paycheck may sound pretty stressful. However, for recyclers in Bogotá, their first...

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

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...

Winning Fair Labour Standards for Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from the Campaign for a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in New York State

Organizando en las calles: Un estudio de recicladores en las calles de Ciudad del Cabo

Un resumen basado en el informe de Koni Benson y Nanadi Vanga-Mgijima, Grupo Internacional de Investigación e Información Laboral

The politics of vulnerability: Exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters

Abstract:This book chapter examines whether informal economic associations provide an effective mechanism for political voice. Moreover,...

A Spreading Banyan Tree: the Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.