Building Collective Power

Extending Labor Standards to Informal Workers at the Base of Global Garment Value Chains: New Institutions in the Labor Market

This report presents three examples of emerging institutional arrangements in the labor market from the perspective of the author who works...

Legal Empowerment of Workers in the Informal Economy

This report provides detailed information on a project, where workers were trained on unionism, social security, occupational health and...

Waste Pickers Without Frontiers

Unprotected Labour: What Role for Unions in the Informal Economy?

Articles include:InterviewInformal work: From concept to action, by Christine NathanInformal work: Concept and definitionWork, law and the...

Domestic Work: Mobilising for an ILO Convention

Union View, No 19

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

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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...

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...

Organising Women Workers in the Informal EconomyGender and Development

Abstract: This article focuses on the challenges facing organisation among the hardest-to-reach working women in the informal economy. What...

Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil

Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities....