Theme: Building Collective Power

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

Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism,...

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

The World’s Scavengers – Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Out of the Shadows: Organising and protecting domestic workers in Europe: The role of trade unions

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Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.

Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India

A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...