Building Collective Power

Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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South Africa’s Waste Pickers Creating Jobs and Fighting Poverty

Out of the Shadow: Organising Domestic Workers Towards a Protective Regulatory Framework for Domestic Work

Report of the conference organized by ETUC, IRENE, and PICUM, Brussels, 14-15 April 2005, edited by Celia Mather.

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Challenge for Trade Unions. International Politics and Society

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Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Street Traders and their Organisations in South Africa

From the booklet, “The main aim of the research and booklet is to help build strong local and national organisations so that street...

Transforming Lives, Transforming Movement Building: Lessons from the National Domestic Workers Alliance

The Strategy – Organizing – Leadership (SOL) Initiative of the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity is a collaboration with...

WIEGO Research – Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy: Street Vendors

Résumé des conclusions principals – La coopération entre les travailleurs de l’économie informelle: Travailleurs à domicile et récupérateurs de matériaux

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...