Theme: Building Collective Power

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...

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

Laws, Legitimacy and Ongoing Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian Policies on Domestic Workers’ Rights

This Policy Brief explores domestic worker struggles in Bolivia.  It concentrates on laws and policies applied by the government of Evo Morales...

Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...

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

Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

Decent work, decent life for domestic workers ITUC

Street vending in urban India: The struggle for recognition

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Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

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Waste Pickers: A Gendered Perspective