Theme: Building Collective Power

Mapping of Waste Pickers and Organizations Supporting Waste Pickers in Kenya

Report commissioned by WIEGO

Forces for Change: Informal Economy Organisations in Africa

Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing: Networking and leveraging resources

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

Informelle Ökonomie und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland

Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.

WIEGO, its work on waste-pickers and the first World Encounter of Waste-pickers in Colombia, 2008

Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism,...

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...

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production