All posts in Building Collective Power
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Books & Book Chapters
We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India
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Research Reports
Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005
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Research Reports
Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies
In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60
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Journal Articles
Peru: Trade Unions Respond to Flexibilization
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Research Reports
Informal Economy: Law and Policy Demands, Lessons from the WIEGO India Pilot Study
In 2008, WIEGO initiated the Law and Informal Economy project, focusing on the legal aspects of helping informal workers with economic opportunity,...
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Journal Articles
Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and PoliticsSocial Policy
Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United...
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Books & Book Chapters
El Progreso de las Mujeres en el Mundo 2005: Mujeres, Trabajo, y Pobreza
Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici Más información está disponible en el sitio web de UN Women. ...
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Journal Articles
Informal Workers in the Developing World: Organizing in the Global Economy New Labor Forum
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Books & Book Chapters
Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective
Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal...
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Resource Documents
Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: A Review of Literature