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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town – HINDI

     (Hindi) A summary based on the report by Koni Benson and Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) ...

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  • Research Reports

    Work and Economic Security in the 21st Century: What Can We Learn From Ela Bhatt?

    This paper is the result of research on SEWA including an interview with Ela Bhatt, conducted by Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus at the...

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak

    Analyzes how women workers are using organization and mobilization to enforce their rights.

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  • Review of “Solidarity – Selected Essays” by Dan Gallin

    From the review: “This collection of essays and presentations by Dan Gallin starting from his youth as a young socialist, through his...

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  • Journal Articles

    Lautloses Heer der Domestic WorkersMitbestimmung

    This article (in German) is from the journal of the Hans Boeckler Foundation “Mitbestimmung” (co-determination).

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

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

    Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici 

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  • Research Reports

    Street Vendors in Asia: A Review

    This paper aims to review recent research on street vendors in Asia with the purpose of assessing the magnitude of street vending in different...

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  • Research Reports

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

    Abstract:

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