Building Collective Power

Resumo dos principais achados – Cooperacao entre trabalhadores na economia informal: Um foco nos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras domiciliares e catadores e catadoras de material reciclavel

Reshaping the social contract: emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India

Abstract: This article focuses on informal construction and bidi (local tobacco) workers in India. Informal workers in these sectors can...

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture, the Global Movement

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Livelihoods With Dignity

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

Organising Street Vendors: “Gente de Confiar” Radio Progamme, Lima, Peru

An authentically democratic community requires open channels of communication between citizens. Street markets offer a natural setting for...

“God First, Second the Market”: A Case Study of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund of Liberia

This Case Study presents some of the first steps being taken in Liberia, to find solutions to the problems women traders face which normally...

Global Networking: Informal Workers Build Solidarity, Power and Representation through Networks and Alliances

Over the past three decades informal workers, mainly in the global South and their organizations have joined and launched global networks...

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