Theme: Building Collective Power

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

Paper prepared for the Social Law Project Conference, 7-8 May 2010, Cape Town.

Rights of Home-based Workers

Peru: Trade Unions Respond to Flexibilization

The politics of vulnerability: Exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters

Abstract:This book chapter examines whether informal economic associations provide an effective mechanism for political voice. Moreover,...

Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and PoliticsSocial Policy

Summary from article: The number of contingent, casual, irregular workers is rising both in the developed and developing world. In the United...

Informal Economy and Trade Unions in Germany

Background paper for Exposure-Dialogue Programme with SEWA.Read this article in German or English.

Informal Labour in India and Indonesia: Surmounting organizing barriersLabour, Capital and Society

Abstract: A key aspect of facilitating a transformation to a more just and equitable society should be the facilitation of decent work, through...

Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions

This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...

Informal Worker Organising and Mobilisation: Linking Global with Local Advocacy

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...