Building Collective Power

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...

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

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Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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Organization, Regulation and Exploitation in the So-Called ‘Urban Informal Sector’

Peru: Trade Unions Respond to Flexibilization

Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment

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Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences

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Waste Pickers: A Gendered Perspective

Informal Labour in India and Indonesia: Surmounting organizing barriersLabour, Capital and Society

Abstract: A key aspect of facilitating a transformation to a more just and equitable society should be the facilitation of decent work, through...

Collective Strength by Global Networks of the Urban Poor: Policy Implications of Affordable Housing and Co-development Strategies

Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that...