Building Collective Power

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...

Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: A Review of Literature

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Women Street Vendors: The Road to Recognition

SEEDS, No. 20

The Poor Shall Not Remain Small: Broadening Access of the Organized Poor to the Market by Means of Strengthening NPOs Through Constitutional Justice (The Case of the ARB-Colombia)

Paper presented at Global Network of Government Innovators, Ash Institute at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November...

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