Building Collective Power

Organizing Informal Workers: Benefits, Challenges, and Successes

Abstract: The informal workforce represents more than half of all workers in most developing countries and a significant share of workers...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

The following document describes the work of the SEWA’s community workers. This Workers’ Lives essay offers an intimate look at those...

Domestic Workers Around the World: Organising for Empowerment

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

Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture, the Global Movement

Abstract:

Domestic Work: Mobilising for an ILO Convention

Union View, No 19

Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

A summary based on the report by Koni Benson & Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, International Labour Research & Information Group (ILRIG)

Reclaiming Reusable and Recyclable Materials in Africa – A Critical Review of English Language Literature

This paper seeks to include Africa in the current international conversations about the situation of informal workers such as waste pickers....

The Informal Economy: Women on the Front Line

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...

Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...