Building Collective Power

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...

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Industry in South Africa

SEED Working Paper No. 66 Abstract: Examines features of the municipal waste management sector in South Africa, including the legal and policy...

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges

Co-operatives and Workers in the Informal Economy: Possibilities and Challenges” is an initial study of co-operatives and their relationships...

Old Classes and New Spaces: Urban Poverty, Unorganised Labour and New UnionsEconomic and Political Weekly

Critical perspectives on globalisation acknowledge the need for mitigating the inegalitarian impact of marketisation upon disadvantaged sections...

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

Organising Informal Transport Workers: The Informal Economy and the Unionisation of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Benin

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

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Organising Workers in the Informal Economy: The Experience of the Self Employed Women’s Union, 1994-2004

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Rising from the Waste– Organising Wastepickers in India, Thailand and the Philippines

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Empowering Women in an Insecure World. Joining SEWA Makes a Difference.

Abstract: This paper examines what significance membership in SEWA has. SEWA, a trade union of self-employed poor women, uses several strategies...