Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade
This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...
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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...
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Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru
This Briefing Note describes the background, objectives, activities and achievements of the Women’s Network as an example of better practice...
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Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies
This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...
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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....
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Summary of Key Findings from Cooperation Among Workers in the Informal Economy: A Focus on Home-Based Workers and Waste Pickers
This is a summary of a report that is part of the joint ILO and WIEGO initiative, which focuses on the current challenges, opportunities,...
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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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Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor
The chapters in this book analyse different types of membership based organizations of the poor (MBOP). The book is characterised by a conviction...
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Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of Globalization
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Organizing in South Africa’s Informal Economy: An Overview of Four Sectoral Case Studies
In Focus Programme, Series on Representation and Organization Building. Working Paper, No. 60
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